As an airplane flies faster than the speed of sound, it "pushes" on the sound waves in front of it. But sound waves obey the speed limit—they can't travel faster than the speed of sound. So the waves ...

When a plane or other object accelerates past the speed of sound, visible shock waves form. Here, the best images of this stunning phenomenon. An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the "Diamondbacks" of ...

This video shows the shock wave of a MiG-29 Fulcrum flying past Mach 1.0 during an Edge of Space flight. The following was shot by famous aviation video producer Artur Sarkysian for MigFlug, a company ...

IT’S like threading a needle while travelling faster than the speed of sound. Pilots at the US air force test pilot school flew this supersonic T-38C jet to the right place at the right time so that ...