The sound barrier was first broken on Oct. 14, 1947, according to the U.S. Air Force. That's when Capt. Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 rocket-propelled aircraft broke the sound barrier. Reuters ...

In the far northeast of Germany, at a secretive base near the Baltic Sea, engineers and pilots worked on one of the most ...

The location was symbolic, as it was the same California airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947 in the Bell X-1, a rocket engine–powered aircraft that was ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 has successfully broken the sound barrier, becoming the first supersonic civil aircraft in U.S. history. Today (Jan. 28), the XB-1 took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in ...

The countdown has begun for the XB-1’s “historic” first supersonic test flight that should break the sound barrier, according to Boom Supersonic.. The test flight for the Boom Supersonic XB ...

If you've been keeping tabs on aviation news as of late, you saw that Boom Supersonic just recently broke the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft. Oddly enough, no one on the ground ...

So while XB-1 didn’t break the Sound Barrier, it came very close, and parts of the aircraft were subjected to the conditions ...

In 2003, British Airways and Air France retired Concorde—history’s only successful supersonic airliner. More than two decades later, a civil aircraft has broken the sound barrier once again.

A "son of Concorde" aircraft that may one day fly from New York to London in 1.5 hours has reached supersonic speeds. An incredible image shows Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet breaking the sound ...

Supersonic, Rocket-Powered Aircraft Gets All Clear to Break Sound Barrier New Zealand manufacturer Dawn Aerospace is developing ‘an aircraft with the performance of a rocket’ for suborbital ...