A new documentary, The Flight of Jackie Cochran, is set to reintroduce one of the most groundbreaking—and largely ...

The Bell X-1 is surely one of the most important aircraft of the last century. It flew for the first time in January 19, 1946 ...

In 1967, the F-4 Phantom fighter jet produced the strongest sonic boom ever recorded and hit a remarkable overpressure of 144 ...

Boom Supersonic is the first independently-funded jet to break the sound barrier.

The English Electric Lightning was a 1950s jet capable of Mach 2 speeds and which served for almost exactly 30 years in the ...

Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound more than a decade ago, died in a crash Thursday along the eastern coast of Italy.