These streaks are shockwaves, the visual fingerprints of an aircraft pushing through the sound barrier. Capturing them ...

An image released on Monday has captured the moment a civilian jet broke the sound barrier during a historic test flight over the Mojave Desert. The photograph, supplied by NASA and Boom ...

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 ...

If you've ever heard an airplane break the sound barrier, the ear-splitting boom that follows is memorable. Now, NASA has come up with the technology to allow people to see the sound barrier being ...

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 ...

An F/A-18C Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 113 breaks the sound barrier during an air power demonstration over the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. An F/A-18F Super Hornet ...

He helped design the X-1, which was the first airplane to break the sound barrier. Slick Goodlin was a test pilot for Bell Laboratories and made numerous flights in the X-1 before it was ...

A few minutes later, police revealed the cause of the noise: a fighter plane breaking the sound barrier. “A very loud noise was heard in Paris and in the Paris region. There isn't an explosion ...

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 ...

But just days before his record-breaking flight ... The X-1 raced toward the sound barrier as Yeager tested the plane's stabilizer. "The rudder and elevator lost their grip on the thinning ...