Sonic booms have long been a barrier to overland supersonic flights. The Concorde was banned from virtually every country in ...

It’s been two decades since a passenger jet broke the sound barrier — until now. The Boom XB-1 just went supersonic, marking a massive leap forward for commercial aviation. Could this be the next ...

Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier Wednesday above Beirut and parts of Lebanon. "Israeli military aircraft broke the sound barrier over Beirut and several Lebanese regions,” according to ...

Mach 10, ten times the speed of sound, would be about 7,600 mph. It hasn't been reached yet, but could a pilot even survive ...

Boom Technology, the Colorado company working on building the next generation of supersonic jets, has chosen to develop and ...

Over the course of the 20th and 21st Centuries, technology has been advancing at the speed of a NASA X-43 breaking the sound ...

Stratolaunch's Talon-A2 vehicle went hypersonic for the first time in December, then repeated the feat in March.

On Oct. 14, 1947, Air Force captain Chuck Yeager launched his Bell X-1 experimental jet from the bomb bay ... hit 700 mph—Mach 1.06. Breaking the sound barrier was surprisingly uneventful.

Passenger airliners haven't necessarily got faster over recent decades, but they're still the best way to hop between ...

James Walker / NASM On August 24, 1961, a jet streaked over the desert near ... speed record and becoming the first woman to break the sound barrier. But the French test pilot Jacqueline Auriol ...

On February 10, in the skies above the Mojave Desert, the Boom Supersonic XB-1 test jet roared past Mach 1, tearing through the sound barrier. But this time, there was no need to take it on faith.