Dozens of aircraft types have broken the sound barrier, far too many to list here. These include almost all fighter jets, many military trainers, various experimental aircraft, and various strategic ...

Chuck Yeager, a World War II fighter ace who was the first human to travel faster than sound and whose gutsy test pilot exploits were immortalized in the bestselling book “The Right Stuff,” died ...

We rewind to the early Cold War and trace how Convair’s F-102 went from a subsonic embarrassment to a Mach-capable ...

According to the source, the appearance of low-flying jets over the capital triggered panic among residents, who were celebrating the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of Ramadan BEIRUT, ...