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Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator hits Mach 0.95 on its sixth flight — the closest any private jet has come to breaking the sound barrier since Concorde

A small, dart-shaped aircraft screamed across the Mojave Desert in early 2025 at nearly the speed of sound, and the company ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

NASA tests confirm next-generation Mars rotors can safely break the sound barrier

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has successfully tested new rotor blades that surpassed the ...
ScienceAlert on MSN

NASA's Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotors Have Broken The Sound Barrier in Tests

A rendering of the mid-air deployment of one of the SkyFall copters. (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/AeroVironment, Inc.) ...

NASA’s Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Blades Break Sound Barrier in Record Test

NASA has tested Mars helicopter blades that reach supersonic tip speeds, a major step toward more capable rotorcraft for ...
WLWT

Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound, dies in crash in Italy

He stunned the world in 2012 when he became the first human to break the sound barrier with only his body after jumping from a capsule more than 24 miles over New Mexico He stunned the world in 2012 ...
AOL

The Story of the Man Who Jumped From the Edge of Space and Broke the Sound Barrier

This is a story of one man’s audacious dream to leap from space, defy the laws of gravity, and break the sound barrier all in a single jump. Felix Baumgartner wanted to do the unthinkable. On October ...