The company plans to fly the planes at Mach 0.94 – just below the speed of sound – when traveling over land, moving up to ...

Sonic booms are heard on the ground when airplanes fly faster than the speed of sound — typically about 760 mph (1,223 kph) near sea level but varying depending on temperature, altitude and ...

In the next scene, he flicks cigarette ash to the ground as Yeager shears through the sound barrier in the X-1. “I’m so livid about that,” Goodlin told the San Antonio Express-News in 1997.

MOJAVE, Calif. - XB-1 became the first American-made private supersonic jet to fly faster than the speed of sound as Boom Supersonic works toward building a fleet of supersonic jets for commercial ...

The characteristic crack of the whip results not from the tip’s snapping to the ground but from its literally breaking the sound barrier, producing a small sonic boom. “Obviously, fly-fishermen aren’t ...

Stargazing A stadium-sized asteroid will fly past Earth on May 9, and you can watch it live. ... On June 27, 1997, NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft flew by an asteroid named 253 Mathilde.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Monday as the American company seeks to deliver the world's faster airliner capable of carrying passengers between New York ...

A boat exploded near Hart Island in the Bronx Saturday night, injuring three and forcing 19 others to swim for their lives as flames engulfed the vessel, according to fire officials and law ...

NASA has developed special probes that will fly aboard F-15B jets trailing closely behind its X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet in order to measure the shock waves it produces.

This is not the first time the Air Force prepared someone to push the limit of how much speed the human body can endure. On Oct. 14, 1947, Air Force captain Chuck Yeager launched his Bell X-1 ...

Sonic booms are heard on the ground when airplanes fly faster than the speed of sound — typically about 1,220 kph near sea level but varying depending on temperature, altitude and other ...