On Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time! Yeager was a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force who made history by flying an aircraft faster than the speed of sound. He made ...

The Problem That Grounded the Future By the late 1940s, American aviation had reached a limit literally. Fighter aircra ...

The jet, built by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, took off from US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. Flown by Nils ...

The X-59 successfully completed its inaugural flight—a step toward developing quieter supersonic jets that could one day fly ...

NASA test pilot Nils Larson flew the X-59 supersonic jet on its inaugural flight over California's Mojave Desert, validating ...

Theories on low-drag aero­dynamics ­haven’t changed much since the longtail Le Mans racers that inspired the Aerotech, adding a timeless aspect to the futuristic design. On a lonely oval racetrack in ...

It's time to go back four decades in time and choose the best movies of every year of the '80s, and we only agreed with the ...

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2025. There are 78 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On Oct. 14, 1947, U.S. Air Force Capt. Chuck ...

89, of Jeffersontown, Kentucky, passed away on October 5, 2025. She was born in Clermont, Kentucky, on June 19, 1936, to Minnie and Golden Riley. Ruth had a noble and generous heart, and her selfless ...

We say: Schumer crows that extending the shutdown — which Dems routinely claim is the Republicans’ fault — is politically positive for his party. Forget the real suffering it’s imposing on travelers, ...