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Bell X-1: How one weird plane shattered the sound barrier
The X-1’s fuselage was designed to resemble a .50 caliber bullet—one of the only shapes known to have stable flight at ...
On a cool October morning in 2025, a sleek jet streaked across the sky above California’s Mojave Desert. This was NASA and Lockheed Martin’s X-59, an experimental airplane designed to fly faster than ...
A new "quiet" supersonic X-59 jet designed to revolutionize air travel successfully completed its first test flight, Lockheed Martin announced this week. The sleek, needle-point aircraft built for ...
Skydiver, daredevil and extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner died Thursday. He was 56. The Austrian, who in 2012 became the first person to break the sound barrier with just his body, died in a ...
(AP) Extreme athlete and record-setting high-altitude jumper Felix Baumgartner hopes no more last-minute cancellations will thwart his death-defying attempt to be the first skydiver in history to ...
Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound, dies in crash in Italy
Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound during a 24-mile leap through the stratosphere more than a decade ago, died in a crash Thursday along the ...
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