An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: On October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first pilot to fly supersonically, flying at Mach 1.06 and just breaking the sound barrier. The X-1, ...

The picture of Chuck Yeager at the top of the article has a "secret." See if you can figure it out, and then check if you are right at the end of the article! Brigadier General (ret.) Chuck Yeager ...

A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday, tearing through the ...

Chuck Yeager Flies the MiG-15 A segment from a U.S. Air Force film follows a single flight by then-Major Charles Chuck Yeager. Before Yeager and Air Force test pilots Albert Boyd and H.E. Tom ...

Notables I’ve profiled include Neil Armstrong, Sir Edmund Hillary, Sir Roger Bannister, James Cameron, Don Walsh and Chuck Yeager. It’s been an interesting road. After leaving my job in ...

The picture of Chuck Yeager at the top of the article has a "secret." See if you can figure it out, and then check if you are right at the end of the article! Brigadier General (ret.) Chuck Yeager is ...

Love aviation history? Discover more of our stories here! Less than a decade after this milestone, achieved by United States Air Force test pilot Charles Elwood 'Chuck' Yeager, plans began to be laid ...

Then came about Boom’s slogan: “XB-1 to Mach 1”. This meant Boom was authorized to break the sound barrier in the same airspace as Chuck Yeager did in 1947, where he reached Mach 1.06 (700 miles per ...

“I loved ‘Coffee Time’ because I've interviewed everybody from Chuck Yeager to Vice President Cheney to cosmonauts from the space program,” Kenney said. “I don't know how many people I've interviewed ...