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The skies over the United States could be wide open for much faster air travel in the near future. Not just because passenger planes capable of breaking the sound barrier are in development — for the ...

Not just because passenger planes capable of breaking the sound barrier are in development ... single trend in all of flying since the jet age began,” Jon Ostrower, editor-in-chief of ...

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Photograph by Bettmann, GETTY IMAGES No wonder the public was fascinated ... becoming the first woman to break the sound barrier. It was tough going for others as the war ended.

It seemed the issue could not be solved with no one taking responsibility ... on the B-29 that assisted Chuck Yeager in breaking the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, and his job on the YB-49 ...

Whether or not Skenes is a Darwinism winner, he is taking no chances. With his trainer ... the aircraft hit 700 mph—Mach 1.06. Breaking the sound barrier was surprisingly uneventful.

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.

Boom analysis found that no audible sonic boom reached the ground while the jet was flying at supersonic speeds. “This image makes the invisible visible—the first American-made civil supersonic jet ...

"This image makes the invisible visible — the first American made civil supersonic jet breaking ... sound barrier," Blake Scholl, Boom Supersonic founder and CEO, said in a statement. The photo ...

The XB-1 captured in Schlieren imagery the moment it breaks the sound barrier, while producing no sonic boom (Credit: NASA/Boom Supersonic). “This image makes the invisible visible—the first ...