This video highlights supersonic aircraft known for breaking Mach 1 and pushing the boundaries of technology, from pioneering experimental planes to advanced military jets. Each aircraft featured ...

It was not until World War II, when aircraft started to reach the limits of the sound barrier — although without successfully breaking the ... than 70 years later, military aircraft can ...

Off the coast of Pusan, South Korea, July 7, 1999 -- An F/A-18 Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron One Five One (VFA-151) breaks the sound barrier in the skies over the Pacific Ocean.

Most people know the intrepid, and let's just say it totally ballsy, Chuck Yeager strapped himself into a plane with more engine than wings and successfully exceeded the speed of sound on October ...

Not the only one to break the sound barrier this day While Yeager’s sound-breaking flight was news in military and aircraft ... Today, fighter jets can easily break the sound barrier.

Though average people have flown at high speeds on airplanes, supersonic flight is almost exclusively reserved for fighter pilots in superpowered jets ... object breaking the sound barrier ...

Baumgartner rode a helium balloon from Roswell, New Mexico, (yes, that Roswell) 128,100 feet (39,045m) into the atmosphere and then stepped out of its gondola, breaking the sound barrier with ...

It contrasts differences between how the military used to buy warplanes, and how the Air Force bought the Raptor: Each item drove up costs on the F-22, compared to the legacy aircraft – the F-15 ...

By Richard Goldstein Chuck Yeager, the most famous test pilot of his generation, who was the first to break the sound barrier and ... usher in the age of military jets and spaceflight.