A prototype of a passenger jet designed to succeed the supersonic Concorde broke the sound barrier for the first time on ...

A supersonic passenger jet dubbed the ‘New Concorde’ travelled faster than the speed of sound for the first time during a ...

Although sound travels quite fast, it is still possible to measure its speed in air. To do this, you need to measure the time it takes a sound to travel a measured distance. To reduce errors ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 made history on Tuesday by becoming the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. Before ...

A typical value for the wind is about 12 m/s and the speed of sound in air is about 330 m/s. It is useful to be able to convert between everyday units such miles per hour (mph) to the units used ...

Piloted by former US Navy aviator Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg, XB-1 took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in ...