The idea of rocket propelled aircraft originated in the automobile racing world and saw its first application on June 11,…
Seventy-five years to the day after the Bell X-1 proved that the Sound Barrier was only an engineering challenge, the…
Seventy-five years ago, a sonic boom thundered for the first time over California’s High Desert. On the ground below, it…
On Sept. 8, 1954, NACA Aeronautical Research Pilot Scott Crossfield took the North American Aviation F-100 Super Sabre on its…