Thanks to upgraded engines and advanced computers that monitor weather in real time, Boom Supersonic achieved the holy grail ...

Not every experimental jet fighter made by the U.S. military would go on to reach production, for any number of reasons.

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 creates a sonic boom inaudible from the ground below when flying at the exact right speed and altitude ...

The picture of Chuck Yeager at the top of the article has a "secret." See if you can figure it out, and then check if you are right at the end of the article! Brigadier General (ret.) Chuck Yeager ...

Throughout the 1970s and '80s, playwright Sam Shepard was American theater’s tough guy. He fooled around with punk poet Patti ...

The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test flight in the same Mojave Desert airspace in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager, a World War II ace fighter pilot who ...

Chuck Yeager Flies the MiG-15 A segment from a U.S. Air Force film follows a single flight by then-Major Charles Chuck Yeager. Before Yeager and Air Force test pilots Albert Boyd and H.E. Tom ...

A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet ...

About 35,000 feet (10,670 meters) over the Mojave Desert, northwest of Los Angeles, Boom Supersonic's XB-1 became the first ...

A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday, tearing through the air tens of thousands of feet above the Mojave Desert and a crowd of ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: On October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first pilot to fly supersonically, flying at Mach 1.06 and just breaking the sound barrier. The X-1, ...