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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 ... and also by the availability of the rocket engine. And it was a matter from that point on of merely growing the ...

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 ...

The first person to break the sound barrier was U.S. Air Force Captain ... which used the XS-1 rocket engine powered aircraft built by Bell Aircraft. More popularly referred to as the Bell X ...

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 ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ... Boom Supersonic XB-1 jet breaks sound barrier on historic test flight (video) The Feb. 10 test flight was the final one for XB ...

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 ...

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 ...