"Chuck" Yeager became the first human to break the sound barrier, using the Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis" rocket plane. The XB-1, flown by Boom's chief test pilot, Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg ...

Most interesting of all, perhaps, is the fact that the technology is over a century old ... When a jet breaks the sound barrier up there, it creates a loud boom. As the sonic boom moves downward, it ...

Boom Technology, the Colorado company working on building the next generation of supersonic jets, has chosen to develop and ...

Boom Technology’s supersonic demonstrator will ... Whereas the Concorde got past the sound barrier by using afterburners, Fehrm says Boom intends to skip the add-on thrust and instead use ...

At Mach 1, shock waves coming off a T-38 (seen using Schlieren photography) will coalesce to form a mighty boom. Along Seawall ... make when it crosses the sound barrier during flight tests ...

The XB-1 aircraft, a jet independently developed by Boom Supersonic, has broken the sound barrier during a test flight over the Mojave Desert in California. The sound barrier was broken for the ...

Previously, Dr. Hallion was curator of science and technology at the Smithsonian Institution. NOVA spoke with him on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the breaking of the sound barrier.

After about a minute, you hear an enormous "BOOM," louder than any thunder or fireworks you've ever heard! What do you think made the noise happen?