That plane, famously piloted by Chuck Yeager, was the first aircraft to break the sound barrier—a feat that ... the X-4 was in fact smaller than the Cessna 152 two-seater so often used as ...

Only one other private jet can go that fast – the Cessna Citation X+ ... Followed by a NASA F-18 chase plane, the jet was observed to exceed Mach 1.0, breaking the sound barrier – a first for an ...

Boom Supersonic, the company aiming to create commercial planes that can travel faster than the speed of sound, have ...

Boom Supersonic and NASA just dropped an incredible photo of the XB-1 breaking the sound barrier over the Mojave Desert.

NASA has released a new image providing photographic evidence of Boom Supersonic's XB-1 prototype aircraft breaking the sound barrier. Captured on the second supersonic flight, it used a special ...

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 ...

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 data discovered might lead the way for supersonic commercial flights without sonic booms, the company said in the news ...

A "son of Concorde" aircraft that may one day fly from New York to London in 1.5 hours has reached supersonic speeds. An incredible image shows Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet breaking the sound barrier.

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 ...