The film documents the historic flight of the X1 aircraft, piloted by Captain Chuck Yeager, on October 14, 1947, when he ...

One of the many ongoing missions of the US government's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is to make ...

Boom Supersonic independently designed and built the XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet in America. The XB-1's first ...

The company has highlighted it as the first civil supersonic jet to break the sound barrier, with the test flight occurring over the Mojave desert earlier this… ...

When Boom Supersonic's XB-1 broke the sound barrier last month, it achieved commercial supersonic flight for the first time ...

It was a step toward reviving supersonic commercial travel ... many as 80 passengers while traveling faster than the speed of sound. The jets would be built in North Carolina.

“XB-1’s supersonic flight demonstrates that the ... narrow engines to produce the high thrust needed to break the sound barrier. But the reason why Concorde flights halted was due to excessive ...

A startup wants to revive the Concorde for the generations of flyers that missed out, without the noisy boom and the up to ...

but the real fun started in January when it made its first supersonic flight. The aircraft smashed through the 767mph sound barrier - sending a sonic boom rippling through the air on two occasions.

Neutrinos are sometimes called “ghost particles,” because they are nearly weightless, rarely interact with any other matter, ...

Being a test pilot isn’t always the healthiest business in the world. [In the 1950s, test pilots were being killed at the ...