Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager, the World War II fighter pilot ace and quintessential test pilot who showed he had the “right stuff” when in 1947 he became the first person to fly ...

Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier in late January with its XB-1 test jet, paving the way forward in the startup's efforts to build its own supersonic airliner. Boom and NASA released a unique ...

American aerospace startup Boom made history on Tuesday by breaking the sound barrier during the test flight of its Boom Supersonic XB-1 demonstrator jet. The XB-1's flight, livestreamed from the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A sleek white aircraft became the first ...

The Colorado-based company is aiming to build a Concorde-like supersonic aircraft—but has hurdles to clear before realizing that goal. Boom’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft just broke the sound barrier, ...

A civilian jet broke the sound barrier for the first time Tuesday while making a historic test flight over the Mojave Desert.

In March 2021, Snopes readers asked about a video circulating on social media that showed a fighter jet blasting by an audience on a beach, along with commentary claiming the aircraft broke the sound ...

Sept 19 (Reuters) - Chuck Yeager, the retired U.S. Air Force pilot who broke the sound barrier, has sued Airbus SE AIR.PA, saying it used his name, identity and likeness without permission in ...

The thing about the sound barrier in the 1940s was that everyone in aviation knew that it was theoretically possible to travel faster than sound. High-powered bullets did it all the time. But whether ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” ...