A civilian jet broke the sound barrier for the first time Tuesday while making a historic test flight over the Mojave Desert. The XB-1 aircraft, manufactured by Boom Supersonic, was piloted by ...

And the plane that would ultimately achieve that goal would be the experimental Bell X-1 jet. The National Advisory ... barrier was in fact a passable threshold. Yeager’s X-1, nicknamed ...

Feb. 25 (UPI) --Southwest Airlines flight 2504 narrowly missed colliding with a privately owned business jet that was taxiing across the runway on which the airliner was to land at Chicago's ...