The Northrop X-4 Bantam had a tendency to pitch nose-down at high speeds—generally not a desirable condition for a plane.

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Not every experimental jet fighter made by the U.S. military would go on to reach production, for any number of reasons.

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 creates a sonic boom inaudible from the ground below when flying at the exact right speed and altitude ...

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

XB-1’s supersonic flight, in the same airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, marks the first civil supersonic ...

Dwight’s entry into the astronaut selection program was heralded in newspapers around the country, on the cover of Black ...

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Flown by Boom’s Chief Test Pilot, Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg ... XB-1’s supersonic flight occurred in the same historic airspace where Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier ...

The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test flight in the ... California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager, a World War II ace fighter pilot who became a military ...