Felix Baumgartner, the skydiver and BASE jumper who was the first person to break the sound barrier with nothing but his body ...

Golf tech: Breaking the sound barrier. August 12, 2007 Bob Grober and his singing club have made the golf swing audible. ... as opposed to just using your body as the frame of reference." ...

Extreme stuntman Felix Baumgartner plans to free-fall from more than 120,000 feet next week, becoming the first skydiver to break the sound barrier. If ...

Yeager broke the sound barrier while flying over California's Mojave Desert in 1947. His X-1 aircraft was lifted to 25,000 feet and then released through the bomb bay of a B-29, ...

You, Too, Can Break the Sound Barrier In 1968, Popular Mechanics got its first look at the Concorde. Fifty years later, a new generation of supersonic passenger jets are nearly ready to take to ...

The legendary aviator, who died Dec. 7, served as a fighter pilot in World War II. Later, as a test pilot, he was the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. Originally broadcast in 1988.