Long before astronauts reached orbit, American engineers faced a dangerous unknown at the edge of the sound barrier. Aircraft ...

We rewind to the early Cold War and trace how Convair’s F-102 went from a subsonic embarrassment to a Mach-capable interceptor. We break down the failed engines and drag disaster, then show how ...

NASA's X-59 jet is on the verge of finally breaking the sound barrier. The X-59 is a supersonic aircraft designed with a radical elongated geometry that aims to reduce the volume of the sonic booms it ...

NASA’s X-59 aircraft has finally flown faster than the speed of sound, bringing us one step closer to supersonic flight without the loud, thunder-like clap noise that comes with it. The experimental ...

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 ...