A Laramie woman and her late husband got a gift from a dentist friend about 35 years ago. It was a long, wooden airplane propeller, but for years they knew nothing about it. Now the mystery is ...
Ten months after its long-delayed first subsonic flight took place last March, Boom Supersonic’s prototype test plane, the XB-1, broke the sound barrier today three times during its 12th flight.
where Chuck Yeager became the first man to break the sound barrier in level flight, in the X-1 aircraft in 1947. Reaching an altitude of 35,290 ft (19,756 m), the Boom XB-1 became not only the ...
High above a barren California desert on Tuesday, a privately developed aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time when Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator reached Mach 1.122. Piloted by ...