This has happened across the board, as today's airliners fly at the same speeds or slower than the planes of the past. In private aviation, however, travel has sped up. Business jets are breaking ...

Supersonic flight has been a fascinating subject since Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the X-1 aircraft in 1947 ... The XB-1 is the first piloted supersonic flight since the Concorde’s ...

For over two decades since the retirement of the Concorde, the vision of supersonic travel seemed to have vanished, but now, with advancements in technology and a persistent drive for innovation, the ...

and where the “sound barrier” was said to be. A joint project of NACA and the U.S. Army Air Forces, built by Bell Aircraft of Buffalo, New York, the X-1 reached a speed of 700 miles per hour ...

The design of the X-1, which broke the sound barrier over California’s MurocDryLake ... which first flew in December 1968, and the Concorde, a joint venture between France and Britain that ...

The Ohio Department of Transportation is replacing a wooden sound barrier along I-75 in Perrysburg with concrete after a high ...

Reenactors representing members of the Concord militia cross the Old North Bridge on Saturday just as brave men did 250 ...

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 ...

Researchers tested the AudioDome and discovered it recreates 3D soundscapes with accuracy exceeding human auditory perception.

Scientists in Korea achieved the first experimental realization of bound states in the continuum in a single resonator, ...

“I don’t want to minimize working with Forest Hills Stadium on improving their technology when it comes to sound barriers — which I think they already do a good job of,” he said. But he ...