On this day in aviation history, February 19, 1957, the Bell X-14 made its first flight. This aircraft, capable of vertical ...

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The test flight occurred in the same airspace where, in 1947, US Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, flying the experimental Bell X-1 aircraft at Mach ...

piloting the experimental Bell X-1 aircraft at a speed of Mach 1.05 and an altitude of 45,000 feet. The XB-1 breakthrough is the first instance of a civil aircraft breaking the speed of sound over ...

The location was symbolic, as it was the same California airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947 in the Bell X-1, a rocket engine–powered aircraft that was ...

The XB-1 supersonic aircraft demonstrator of Boom Supersonic ... The supersonic corridor mentioned here is the Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor, the same portion of airspace which was used by ...

Star Alliance carrier United Airlines has extended its lead as the world's largest airline in terms of fleet size with the historic delivery of its 1,000th aircraft. The Boeing 737 aircraft was ...

The sound barrier was first broken on Oct. 14, 1947, according to the U.S. Air Force. That's when Capt. Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 rocket-propelled aircraft broke the sound barrier.

Ever since the ahead-of-its-time Concorde jet was retired in 2003, aviation enthusiasts have eagerly awaited the return of a passenger aircraft ... using the Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis" rocket ...