Sound Barrier Amir Naderi's latest black-and-white excursion into obsession may be the most extended <I>mise en scene </I>of pure frustration in cinema history, as a deaf-mute boy searches for ...

On February 10, in the skies above the Mojave Desert, the Boom Supersonic XB-1 test jet roared past Mach 1, tearing through the sound barrier. But this time, there was no need to take it on faith ...

The 89-year-old Yeager broke the sound barrier in a U.S. Air Force F-15 at 10:24 a.m. over the Mojave Desert, the same location where he first flew past Mach 1 on October 14, 1947, the military ...

On Oct. 14, 1947, Yeager, then a 24-year-old captain, pushed an orange, bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane past 660 mph to break the sound barrier, at the time a daunting aviation milestone.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A new sound barrier is getting a lot of attention, but it may not catch your eye. A transparent highway barrier went up along Interstate 35E in Little Canada this week.

Baumgartner's team included Joe Kittinger, who first tried to break the sound barrier from 19.5 miles up in 1960, reaching speeds of 614 mph.

The promoter of Washington's inaugural Grand Prix auto race misled D.C. regulators by claiming that a Canadian expert would build a high-tech sound wall at the 1.7-mile track, according to ...

In 1947, Chuck Yeager flew the X-1, an experimental rocket plane, over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California and broke the sound barrier for the first time. To pull it off, he had to fly his ...