Only a few more tests remain until Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft tries in earnest to break the sound barrier. The XB-1 ...
For the first time in over 20 years, a civilian aircraft has surpassed the sound barrier. The rocket-powered Mk-II Aurora, ...
In 1977, the Port Authority was forced to lift a 19-month ban on supersonic transport after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to ...
Dawn Aerospace has flown its rocket-powered aircraft past the speed of sound as it prepares for its first commercial flight ...
The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority is set to start widening the Kilpatrick Turnpike between Eastern Avenue and Interstate 35 in ...
A COMMERCIAL jet has topped supersonic speeds for the first time since the Concorde, the company behind the feat has claimed.
In 2003, British Airways and Air France retired Concorde—history’s only successful supersonic airliner. More than two decades ...
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 ...
But that’s the case with Penn­DOT’s Highland Park Interchange Project for which locally based, award-winning artist Brian Peters designed unique sound barrier walls. The wavy design is ...
NOVA spoke with him on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the breaking of the sound barrier. NOVA: How early on did the Americans get involved in pursuing high-speed flight? HALLION: The American ...