It was not until World War II, when aircraft started to reach the limits of the sound ... breaking the barrier into supersonic speed - that the term came into use. Now, More than 70 years later ...

Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier Wednesday above Beirut and parts of Lebanon. "Israeli military aircraft broke the sound barrier over Beirut and several Lebanese regions,” according to ...

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 ...

Supersonic air travel has been reserved for military pilots since Concorde ... they didn’t actually initiate a sonic boom and ...

were thinking less of military applications than commercial applications. NOVA: At some point countries around the world began working in earnest on the problem of breaking the sound barrier.

American aerospace startup Boom Supersonic achieved a historic milestone by breaking the sound barrier with its XB ... and used by government and military agencies. The XB-1's flight is ...

Slick Goodlin was a test pilot for Bell Laboratories and made numerous flights in the X-1 before it was transferred to the military for the sound barrier attempt. In 1947, Chuck Yeager was a ...

It is but one key part to the careful choreography of Skenes’s movements, which are as finely calibrated as the engines of the military jets ... Mach 1.06. Breaking the sound barrier was ...

Free-fall through the sound barrier. In a computer animation ... Narrator:In early supersonic jets, this caused extreme vibrations. In Felix, these could damage his organs, and even kill him.