Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.
Charles Yeager was an iconic human being to most who have never met him. Most people ask themselves, "What kind of person was he?" "Was he really fearless?" What was he thinking deep in his heart to...
NASA's experimental supersonic X-plane project has a new name: the X-59 QueSST.
So, what's in the name? Well, the "X-59" part is a nod back to American X-plane history, which kicked off with the world's first supersonic plane, the Bell X-1, famously piloted by Chuck Yeager in 1947 when it...