Supersonic flight means breaking the sound barrier, but there are some myths as to what pilots actually feel at Mach 1.

The SR-71 Blackbirds were used in intelligence-gathering operations over the Soviet Union and Vietnam. As Washington and ...

The remarkable flying career of Charles ‘Chuck’ Yeager - the first pilot to break the sound barrier and fly at supersonic ...

The estimated gross takeoff weight was about 1,058 pounds over the limit for icy conditions, according to a preliminary NTSB ...

But while the successful test flight of XB-1 shows that supersonic flight without sonic booms is technically feasible, the next phase is making it economically feasible. Right now, both subsonic and ...

Bombardier's Global 7500 is their most recently certified product and is currently the fastest plane the manufacturer ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

NASA has snapped a stunning image of a supersonic plane breaking the sound barrier – as its creators boast that there was “no audible sonic boom”. The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a ...

The team, led by Sammy Tin, revealed that the Mach-X vehicles will travel at speeds faster than Mach 5, which is five times ...

The company said it is the “first civil supersonic jet built in America,” and that in January it also became the first independently developed jet to fly faster than the speed of sound.

Tracking data from FlightRadar24 shows an Air Force T-38 jet flying past the plane at a reported barometric altitude of 800 feet. Its ground speed was at 300 knots, about 345 miles per hour.

You could feel the excitement in the weathercaster’s voice as she described the intense spring thunderstorm currently ...