Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager sat in the X-1's cockpit. He had named the X-1 "Glamorous Glennis" after his wife. At 23,000 ...

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The Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg announced today its participation in the Art Bridges Collection Loan Partnership, an innovative art lending model among museums dedicated to American Art, to ...

The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test flight Tuesday in the same Mojave Desert airspace in California where Charles “Chuck” Yeager was the first person ...

Chuck Yeager, a United States Air Force officer, became the first person to exceed the speed of sound in the same airspace in 1947. The XB-1 model is Boom’s supersonic demonstrator is one-third ...

When the XB-1 took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port on its latest flight it was in the same historic airspace where legendary pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in ...

XB-1’s supersonic flight took place in the same historic airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947, according to Boom Supersonic. Keep up with the latest ...

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 ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator has broken the sound barrier, marking a major milestone in the effort that hopes to lead to a larger 55-seat supersonic airliner design known as Overture. Overall, ...