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Chuck Yeager: Breaking the Sound Barrier - 1947 Test Flight
The film documents the historic flight of the X1 aircraft, piloted by Captain Chuck Yeager, on October 14, 1947, when he ...
Christianity Today1d
Captain America’s Human-Sized Heroism
Julius Onah’s Captain America: Brave New World concerns itself with the passing of the baton from the former sort of hero to ...
Why the Aviation Industry Is Taking a More Cautious Approach to A.I. in the Cockpit
The aviation industry is taking a more cautious approach to A.I. in the cockpit, with deterministic A.I. being the inital ...
A startup says it can fly supersonic without the noisy boom. Here's how its airliner would compare to the famous Concorde.
A startup wants to revive the Concorde for the generations of flyers that missed out, without the noisy boom and the up to ...
Letters: Respect Lamar’s art | Help the vulnerable | Plastic trash is harmful
A white male confesses he didn’t connect with Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance, but he worked to bridge the ...
Houston Herald15d
First independently developed jet breaks the sound barrier over the California desert
Tuesday’s flight happened in the same airspace where in 1947 Charles “Chuck” Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, piloting an orange, bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane.
Associated Press22d
Independently funded jet’s sound barrier mark revives talk of commercial supersonic travel
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 to break ...
India Today22d
Boom Supersonic XB-1 breaks sound barrier over Mojave Desert
Tuesday’s flight happened in the same airspace where in 1947 Charles “Chuck” Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, piloting an orange, bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane.