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Forget Breaking The Sound Barrier, America's Bell X-1 Destroyed It (And Was The First To Do So)

Bell X-1: The First Manned Airplane to Exceed the Speed of Sound

Meet the Sun Feng Missile: Taiwan’s Ultimate Policy Against China

The Valkyrie’s six large turbojet engines together provided an impressive 180,000 pounds of thrust. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Supersonic Nuclear Seaplane? Soviet Russia Wanted a Monster of a Bomber

Supersonic Failure: Why the Concorde Was Always Doomed

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Bell X-1: The First Manned Airplane to Exceed the Speed of Sound

Meet the Sun Feng Missile: Taiwan’s Ultimate Policy Against China

The Valkyrie’s six large turbojet engines together provided an impressive 180,000 pounds of thrust. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Supersonic Nuclear Seaplane? Soviet Russia Wanted a Monster of a Bomber

Supersonic Failure: Why the Concorde Was Always Doomed

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Why the American Concorde Was a Supersonic Failure

The #46-062 Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft (known for becoming the first piloted aircraft to fly faster than Mach 1, or the speed of sound, on October 14, 1947) photographed during a test flight. NASA.

Legend: Why the X-1 Program Deserves a Special Place in Aviation History

By U.S. Navy - U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.7213.010, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=333705

BANG: Why Convair’s Sea Dart Was the World's Only Supersonic Seaplane

D-21: The Mach-3 Plane That Spied on China's Nuclear Bomb Tests

Get Ready, Russia and China: Is This the First Step Towards a New U.S. Supersonic Bomber?

Taiwan Reportedly Plans to Upgrade Supersonic Hsiung Feng III Missiles