The film documents the historic flight of the X1 aircraft, piloted by Captain Chuck Yeager, on October 14, 1947, when he ...

Boom Supersonic, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for ...

The same airspace saw Chuck Yeager become the first person to exceed the speed of sound in 1947. Boom’s test plane is named after Mr Yeager’s iconic aircraft, the Bell X-1. Former Concorde ...

Chuck Yeager, the legendary pilot and retired Air Force brigadier general who broke the sound barrier in 1947 ... Yeager went on to break several other speed and altitude records during his ...

Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 experimental plane at Mach 1 some 40,000 feet over the Mojave Desert, becoming the first human to travel faster than the speed of sound. The journey to that flight ...

Chuck Yeager when he became the first aviator to break the speed of sound in 1947, also flying over the Mojave Desert. Despite the company’s moniker, the test flight did not actually produce an ...

Two weeks ago, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane made history when it broke the sound barrier over the continental ...

Boom’s XB-1 reached Mach 1.112, after 10 years of planning and a year of flight tests. Up next: its Overture supersonic ...

The location was symbolic, as it was the same California airspace where Chuck Yeager broke ... speed is the speed of an object that is faster than the speed of sound, measured at about 768 miles ...

The independently funded XB-1 reached a speed of Mach 1.122 ... That's when Capt. Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 rocket-propelled aircraft broke the sound barrier.