In 1962, the governments of Britain and France signed the Anglo-French Agreement, pooling their money and resources to develop a supersonic commercial jet ... upon breaking the sound barrier ...

When I affixed it to my port side, the MTP Throttle delivered a fighter-jet-inspired grip ... feedback added subtle jolts when breaking the sound barrier in my mental Top Gun montage.

Two were converted to be powered by eight Allison J35 jet engines ... member 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 ...

On Oct. 14, 1947, Air Force captain Chuck Yeager launched his Bell X-1 experimental jet from the bomb bay ... 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.

existing aircraft can barely hope to come close to the breaking the sound barrier. Understandable, then, how such a machine can claim the title of fastest civilian aircraft since the Concorde ...

just a whisker shy of breaking the sound barrier. But it's not just about raw speed. This jet is a true globetrotter, with a jaw-dropping range of 8,000 nautical miles (14,816 km). That's enough ...

A little over a month after a civilian jet broke the sound barrier, Boom Supersonic and NASA have released a photo of one of the aircraft’s historic test flights over the Mojave Desert. The image ...

With those high-profile tests using a dedicated demonstrator jet, Boom is rekindling excitement ... that the technology was capable of breaking the sound barrier without producing an audible ...

Yet the notion of a business jet operating at Mach 5 remained ... a hybrid system that kicks over to a ramjet after breaking the sound barrier with a rotational-detonation rocket engine.

Unsurprisingly, the United States was the first nation to field a supersonic jet bomber ... Not only did the Hustler break the sound barrier while in flight, but it would also become the first ...

NASA and Boom Supersonic just released an incredible photo capturing a shockwave emanating from the dark silhouette of the supersonic XB-1 aircraft while it traveled in front of the sun during a ...