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In 1967, the F-4 Phantom fighter jet produced the strongest sonic boom ever recorded and hit a remarkable overpressure of 144 ...
On August 9, 1950, Alexander John "Al" Lilly became the first Canadian to break the sound barrier, piloting a Canadair F-86 ...
June 1990. The Soviets were about to do it again. Not since Sputnik had they so dramatically outpaced the West. They were ...
The English Electric Lightning was a 1950s jet capable of Mach 2 speeds and which served for almost exactly 30 years in the ...
Boom Supersonic says its production plane, known as Overture, will fly at 60,000 feet, the same as Concorde. The speed, Mach ...
China say the C949 could reduce Britain to New York journey time from the usual seven hours to less than half that, making ...
The Guardian reports that researchers have developed a new method to reduce the "tunnel boom" effect that occurs when ...
Concorde Corp has promised to produce the "fastest commercial supersonic aircraft EVER BUILT", cutting the journey time from ...
In 1957, a B58 Hustler bomber broke the sound barrier over Lexington, causing chaos in the city for the afternoon.
Not only is the aircraft, which broke the sound barrier in flight tests, the fastest business jet in aviation history, it established a second milestone with its 8,000-nautical-mile range. For owners, ...
CHINA has thrown itself into the supersonic passenger jet race with its C949 plane that can zoom from London to New York in ...
Late last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator ...