Sixty-seven people died in a collision between a Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet operated by PSA Airlines and a military Black ...

“It's an FG-1A, bureau number 13481, but most people know it as Lucky Gallon,” Chuck said. “This aircraft was raced in the 1946 Cleveland Air Races. He took sixth place. That was the first ...

Air Force test pilot Captain Charles Elwood ("Chuck") Yeager ... test pilots Jack Woolams and Chalmers Goodlin. Two more X-1 ...

Boom's Supersonic XB-1 jet became the “world’s first independently developed supersonic jet” to break the sound barrier ...

Air traffic control communications reveal the ... Then, a request for response from the aircraft is repeated by the controller. About five minutes later, another voice comes on the radio asking ...

The sound barrier was broken for the first time in 1947, when Air Force pilot Capt. Chuck Yeager flew a rocket-propelled experimental aircraft across the Mojave Desert -- taking off from the ...