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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA first visually captured supersonic shock waves in 2019 after a decade of research. The technology was developed in part ...

If you've ever heard an airplane break the sound barrier, the ear-splitting boom that follows is memorable. Now, NASA has come up with the technology to allow people to see the sound barrier being ...

Tuesday’s flight happened in the same airspace where in 1947 Charles “Chuck” Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, piloting an orange, bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane.