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Why the "Sound Barrier" Had to be Broken
When the US rocket program hit a wall in the 1940s, one particular program came to the rescue. Not only it took the flight technology behind that wall, it took us to much farther destinations ...
Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound more than a decade ago, died in a crash Thursday along the eastern coast of Italy.
Felix Baumgartner set multiple world records in 2012 during a fall that broke the sound barrier.
Some may already be familiar with the sonic boom that accompanies a break to the sound barrier, but when and why would military aircraft be allowed to do so?