Tuesday’s flight happened in the same airspace where in 1947 Charles “Chuck” Yeager became the first person to break the ...

The remarkable flying career of Charles ‘Chuck’ Yeager - the first pilot to break the sound barrier and fly at supersonic ...

NOVA: The obstacles to breaking the sound barrier were the aircraft design ... It was based after all on the shape of a bullet. The other lesson that came out of the X-1 was that high performance ...

Tuesday's flight happened in the same airspace where in 1947 Charles "Chuck" Yeager became the first person to break the ...

He helped design the X-1, which was the first airplane to break the sound barrier. Slick Goodlin was a test pilot for Bell Laboratories and made numerous flights in the X-1 before it was ...

Boom Supersonic and NASA just dropped an incredible photo of the XB-1 breaking the sound barrier over the Mojave Desert. Using Schlieren photography, they captured air distortions that are usually ...

Written with all of the fierce intelligence and passion for truth that millions have come to expect from Amy Goodman’s reportage, Breaking the Sound Barrier is, in Arianna Huffington’s words ...

NASA has captured an image of a supersonic civilian jet breaking the sound barrier during a test flight over the Mojave Desert in California in February. The photo, released Monday by the plane ...

The result is a neat visualization of the jet breaking the sound barrier. “This image makes the invisible visible – the first American made civil supersonic jet breaking the sound barrier.