A pilot is safe after ejecting from an F-35 fighter jet that crashed at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, officials said.
Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator jet broke the sound barrier at Mach 1.122, reaching an altitude of 35,290 feet at ...
Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier, bringing ...
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 made history on Tuesday by becoming the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. Before ...
Boom's Supersonic XB-1 jet became the “world’s first independently developed supersonic jet” to break the sound barrier ...
The X-1 was first flown on glide tests, in Florida, after being dropped from a B-29 at 29,000 feet. It wasn’t until information collected during the glide tests was processed, and adjustments were ...
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator jet became the first U.S.-made civilian ... according to the U.S. Air Force. That's when Capt. Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 rocket-propelled aircraft broke ...
Even a commercial jet, loaded with passengers and ... and the U.S. Army Air Force jointly commissioned the X-1, which was built in 1945. As the X-1 was built to push speed records, the plane ...
During the XB-1's historic flight on Tuesday—its ... Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the U.S. Army Air Forces and the U.S. Air Force. According to the National Aviation Academy, "supersonic ...