reaching 750 miles per hour (Mach 1.12) near Barstow, California. You might be wondering why this is news. Since Chuck Yeager’s first sonic boom in 1947, thousands of military aircraft have broken the ...

Chuck Yeager flew a rocket-propelled experimental ... is for it to be able to carry between 64 and 80 passengers at Mach 1.7, or about 1,295 miles per hour. Existing subsonic airliners fly at ...

Chuck Yeager sat in the X-1's cockpit ... was a very respectable 1,700 nautical miles. Top speed was Mach 1.5 or 1.6, depending on the source. It could carry comparable weapons loads and ...

On March 3, 1915, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was officially established by the U.S. Congress, ...

Capt Charles E ‘Chuck’ Yeager flew to a rocketing speed of Mach 1.07 making him the first person ever to fly faster than the speed of sound. Prior to this remarkable record being set, the act of ...

The Grande and the Mach 1 were next, followed by the Boss 351. Ford tried to keep the Mustang the right car for everybody, so it offered a varied range of engines, beginning with the 250 six with ...

The 1969 Mach 1 was so popular that the Mustang GT no longer made any sense, and the decision was simple for Ford. The carmaker eventually ditched the GT, going all-in on the Mach 1, which sold ...

The F-104 Starfighter was not built for dogfights. In fact, Lockheed’s designers purposely sacrificed maneuverability for speed.

It should be noted, however, that Chuck Yeager, the famed test pilot who became the first man to break the sound barrier in 1947, loved the F-104 for its sheer power and speed. Before denigrating ...