When the Northrop T-38 Talon entered service in 1959, it became the world’s first supersonic trainer aircraft and fundamentally changed how military pilots prepared for the jet age. Fast, agile, and ...

Dozens of aircraft types have broken the sound barrier, far too many to list here. These include almost all fighter jets, many military trainers, various experimental aircraft, and various strategic ...

The U.S. Air Force’s (USAF’s) legendary T-38 Talon is slated to be replaced, but it won’t happen overnight. After more than six decades as the backbone of advanced jet training, the world’s first ...

Two decades after Concorde’s last flight a new class of supersonic commercial jets are on the horizon. Boom Supersonic's experimental XB-1 jet (shown in a Schlieren photograph) has flown at supersonic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Boom XB1 from Boom Supersonic achieved Mach cutoff, making it the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier ...

All T-38 aircraft in the United States were grounded pending an investigation after a crash in Alabama in mid-May, injuring a Japanese trainee pilot. The United States Air Force announced on Friday ...

Traveling at the speed of sound may actually be on the horizon. NASA’s supersonic aircraft, dubbed “son of Concorde” after its predecessor, successfully broke the sound barrier for the first time. The ...

NASA's experimental X-59 jet has successfully flown faster than the speed of sound for the first time. The aircraft is designed to break the sound barrier without creating a loud sonic boom, instead ...

Editor’s Note: To watch a video version of this article, click here. For 53 years, one federal regulation has stood between Americans and the return of supersonic air travel over the continental ...

NASA's X-59 supersonic jet is designed to surpass the speed of sound without producing sonic booms. Here's the latest on testing.