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

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 ...

Lloyd "Fig" Newton was just the seventh African American to become a four-star general. He says Trump is trying to whitewash ...

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

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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 ...

American company Boom achieved a milestone Tuesday as its XB-1 aircraft exceeded the speed of sound for the first time during a supersonic test flight. The last flight of a supersonic airliner, ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft has broken the sound barrier in a historic test flight over the Mojave ... took place in the same airspace where Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in ...