A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as America’s first civil supersonic jet completed ...

NASA has released a new image showing the moment Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier without producing an ...

De Beeler was an aeronautical engineer for NACA, the predecessor to NASA. He helped design the X-1, which was the first airplane to break the sound barrier. Slick Goodlin was a test pilot for Bell ...

Breaking the Sound Barrier: Yer Doin’ It Wrong Attention, turbojet-heads: Turner Classic Movies airs “The Sound Barrier” at 8 p.m. EST Friday, May 7. The 1952 film, directed by David Lean ...

As an airplane flies faster than the speed of sound, it "pushes" on the sound waves ... waves are at the tip and tail of the plane. This NASA photograph shows the shock waves created by a plane ...