The sound barrier or sonic barrier is the large increase in aerodynamic drag and other undesirable effects experienced by an aircraft or other object...

The Sound Barrier is a 1952 British aviation drama film directed by David Lean. It is a fictional story about attempts by aircraft designers and test...

Sound Barrier is an American pioneering all-black heavy metal quartet from Los Angeles, whose members have also recorded and toured with acts such as...

A noise barrier (also called a soundwall, noise wall, sound berm, sound barrier, or acoustical barrier) is an exterior structure designed to protect inhabitants...

Beyond the Sound Barrier is a live album by saxophonist Wayne Shorter released by Verve Records in 2005. It features Shorter’s "Footprints" Quartet with...

Sound barrier may refer to: Sound barrier, the transition at transonic speeds from subsonic to supersonic travel, usually referring to flight The Sound...

(NACA). Through the NACA program, he became the first human to officially break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, when he flew the experimental Bell...

1.2. The issue of transonic speed (or transonic region) first appeared during World War II. Pilots found as they approached the sound barrier the airflow...

Sound Barrier is a 2005 film by the Iranian director Amir Naderi. The screenplay was written by Abou Farman, Heather Murphy and Naderi himself and featured...

357.64 km/h (843.6 mph)—Mach 1.25—Baumgartner broke the sound barrier on his descent, becoming the first human to do so without any form of engine power...

vehicle to officially break the sound barrier. Alongside Thrust2, Thrust SSC was displayed in the "Spirit of Speed Gallery" of the Coventry Transport Museum...

been claimed as being the first vehicle to have broken the sound barrier on land. The original forerunner to the vehicle was the "SMI Motivator" which...

pneumatic (for most gases), due to the higher temperature. Projectiles fired by a hybrid have broken the sound barrier. The oldest examples simply involve...

unsuccessfully, for the return of the plane, claiming it was his own property. Mutke also made the controversial claim that he broke the sound barrier in 1945 in...

World War II led to the creation of the first rocket- and jet-powered aircraft. Several claims of breaking the sound barrier during the war subsequently...

64 km/h (843.6 mph), or Mach 1.25. He became the first person to break the sound barrier relative to the surface without vehicular power on his descent...

the world's first aircraft capable of breaking the sound barrier. The project resulted in the design of the turbojet-powered Miles M.52, with a maximum speed...

Trent, "On the Dynamics of a Bull Whip", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 30, no. 12, 1958. "Breaking the Sound Barrier". Chicago...

on-board while XA917 broke the sound barrier, has the distinction of being the first man to break the sound barrier seated backwards. Martin Baker developed...

this decade including Sound Barrier, an all-black heavy metal band. Sound Barrier evolved into Total Eclipse, played clubs such as the Whisky a Go Go in West...

created in the pocket that opens. The sound is described as the crack of a whip, which is an example of breaking the sound barrier, although the causes are...

thrust powered the Bell X-1 rocket aircraft that first broke the sound barrier in 1947, and later aircraft such the X-1A, X-1E, and the Douglas D-558-2...

1997, the first land speed record to break the sound barrier. He was born in Atherstone, Warwickshire. Green's family moved to Hartlepool in the 1970s...

The Sound Barrier (aka, Breaking Through the Sound Barrier, 1952), under the direction of David Lean. Patrick was born in London, England, the son of Thomas...

afterburners; it is also restricted to subsonic speeds as breaking the sound barrier would produce an obvious sonic boom that would increase both its acoustic...

Passionate Friends (1949), Madeleine (1950), and The Sound Barrier (1952). She was a member of The Old Vic theatre company and in 1957 starred in a Broadway...

jets, the Global and Challenger. On May 18, 2021, the Global 7500/8000 series during testing became the first business jet to break the sound barrier and...

Mercer examines the working life of the musicians as well as Shorter's thoughts and Buddhist beliefs. Beyond the Sound Barrier received the 2006 Grammy Award...

only at the moment an object crosses the sound barrier and neither is it heard in all directions emanating from the supersonic object. Rather, the boom is...

became the first woman to break the sound barrier, flying a "one-off" Canadian-built F-86 Sabre Mk 3, alongside Chuck Yeager. Col. K. K. Compton won the 1951...