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

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

Two weeks ago, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane made history when it broke the sound barrier over the continental ...

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, ...

Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 experimental plane ... better information about high-speed flight in order to improve aircraft design, and it was concluded that a full-scale pilot with a pilot ...

The company’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft’s supersonic flight is ... was in the same historic airspace where legendary pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947.

Chuck Yeager flew a rocket-propelled experimental aircraft across the Mojave Desert -- taking off from the Mojave Air and Space Port just as the XB-1 did. Before today's sound barrier-breaking ...

Chuck Yeager, the legendary pilot and retired Air ... Yeager shot down a total of 11 enemy aircraft over the Western Front, downing five in a single day on October 12, 1944. After the war, Yeager ...

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

The location was symbolic, as it was the same California airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947 in the Bell X-1, a rocket engine–powered aircraft that was ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier during ... flight took place in the same historic airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947, according ...