Each time one flies above Mach 1 is special. Most commercial pilots have never done it. Our reporter is not a pilot, but he’s ...
The XB-1 took off from Mojave Air & Space Port in California and exceeded Mach 1 at an altitude of approximately 35,000 feet.
Currently, the F-22 is the only stealth fighter in the U.S.'s fleet that can go into supercruise — sustained flight at supersonic speeds. However, little is known about the secretive F-22.
Less than a year from the maiden flight, the first civil supersonic jet made by a private company aims to demonstrate ...
Behind the controls for these flights is Chief Test Pilot Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg, who tells me that from inside the aircraft, going supersonic is "actually kind of anticlimactic." ...