Supersonic Flight e X-43

What is meant by supersonic flight? The supersonic flight is when aircraft exceeds the speed of sound (about 340 m/s). The first man to exceed the continued flight speed of Mach 1 (the sound barrier) was Charles "Chuck" Yeager on the Bell X-1, 14th October 1947.
Not only military planes were able to break the sound barrier, even the Concorde (France),  a particular aircraft for intercontinental flights, regularly travelled at supersonic speed. This aircraft, however, was banned from service because of the disastrous accident of July 25, 2000.

Bell X-1.

The invention of the jet engine  allowed to travel at much higher speeds and to perform air tricks that couldn’t  be done before. The speed record for an aircraft registered is that of the Boeing X-43, an experimental aircraft developed by NASA to study the various aspects of supersonic flight.



Boeing X-43.