With a deafening roar and billowing trail of dust, a British jet car Monday became the first vehicle to officially exceed the speed of sound on land.The car, called Thrust SSC, for supersonic car ...

The sound barrier had been broken. Battle at Black Rock Thrust SSC's shape was first arrived at by CFD, then proven on a test range on the Pendine Sands in the UK (home to land speed attempts ...

Some may already be familiar with the sonic boom that accompanies a break to the sound barrier, but when and why would ...

Twenty-six years ago, in the spring of 1997, this outrageous rocket on wheels broke the sound barrier and became the fastest land vehicle ever built. The automobile was created to revolutionize ...

Andy Green became the first human being to break the sound barrier on land almost exactly 50 years after Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the air in an experimental Bell X-1 jet. Read more ...

Green became the first human being to break the sound barrier on land almost exactly 50 years after Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the air in an experimental Bell X-1 jet. On this day 24 ...

After examining a new noise barrier in the northwest suburbs that is made of tropical timber, the Illinois Department of Transportation has approved the exotic wood for further use along roadways w… ...