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 ...

The familiar roar of T-38 Talons has returned to Air Force bases across the United States, marking the end of a two-week operational pause that temporarily grounded one of America’s most critical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...