It's fairly common knowledge that when a supersonic aircraft approaches the sound barrier, what follows is the sonic boom. This transitory period between subsonic and supersonic, known as transonic ...

When one thinks of the average airplane, odds are that propellers are part of that mental image. They've been a crucial component of airplane construction from the moment air travel found its footing ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein was among the most difficult and abstract of philosophers. But that’s not how he started out. Wittgenstein was an early pioneer in aeronautical engineering. He published a treatise ...

Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947 in the rocket-powered Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis. Three years earlier, a British Supermarine Spitfire Mark XI had already come within 11 percent of doing ...