On February 10, in the skies above the Mojave Desert, the Boom Supersonic XB-1 test jet roared past Mach 1, tearing through ...

A little over a month after a civilian jet broke the sound barrier, Boom Supersonic and ... Blake Scholl said in a news ...

The XB-1 aircraft, a jet ... the sound barrier during a test flight over the Mojave Desert in California. The sound barrier was broken for the first time in 1947 by an Air Force pilot.

NOVA spoke with him on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the breaking of the sound barrier. NOVA ... First, we had the appearance of the jet engine. That opened up to us the potential of ...

The first F-16 Block 70 fighter jet intended for the Bulgarian Air Force ... was piloted by a U.S. Air Force pilot. As it entered Bulgarian airspace, it was greeted by the new Air Force Commander ...

Flying at 20,000 feet above ground, Karina Miranda became the first Chilean woman pilot to break the sound barrier since it was first broken by a Chilean in the 1970s. Miranda, one of the four ...

Boom Supersonic and NASA published a special photo taken during the flight of the XB-1 jet aircraft, which demonstrates the moment of breaking the sound barrier. To capture the ... Boom Supersonic ...

Written with all of the fierce intelligence and passion for truth that millions have come to expect from Amy Goodman’s reportage, Breaking the Sound Barrier is, in Arianna Huffington’s words ...