36K views · 601 reactions | In the mid-1940s, jet engines weren’t advanced enough to power US dreams of supersonic flight. So the army decided to go with another technology to power their experimental XS1 plane: rocket propulsion. Breaking the Sound Barrier | Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation | Facebook

362K views · 2.1K reactions | Check this out – it’s the first jet aircraft to exceed 1,000 mph in level flight and it flew just 9 years after the Second World War ended. It’s the Fairey Delta and it was a research aircraft that investigated transonic and supersonic flight. So, what was Britain’s fastest jet aircraft and how fast could it go? #aviation #aircraft #airplane #aviationlovers #fyp | AvPay.aero | Facebook

417K views · 1.2K reactions | Boom! ✈️ Supersonic travel is back and...

XB-1, the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet, flew for the first time at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, California last Friday. Chief Test Pilot Bill “Doc” Shoemaker was at the controls when XB-1 took flight, and Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg monitored XB-1 in a T-38 chase plane. Here, you can see the view from the chase plane, which focused on how XB-1 flew and landed, including assessments of the aircraft’s handling qualities, airspeed, and its stability i

63K views · 338 reactions | We built the first supersonic airliner...