36K views · 601 reactions | In the mid-1940s, jet engines weren’t advanced enough to power US dreams of supersonic flight. So the army decided to go with another technology to power their experimental XS1 plane: rocket propulsion. Breaking the Sound Barrier | Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation | Facebook

362K views · 2.1K reactions | Check this out – it’s the first jet aircraft to exceed 1,000 mph in level flight and it flew just 9 years after the Second World War ended. It’s the Fairey Delta and it was a research aircraft that investigated transonic and supersonic flight. So, what was Britain’s fastest jet aircraft and how fast could it go? #aviation #aircraft #airplane #aviationlovers #fyp | AvPay.aero | Facebook

417K views · 1.2K reactions | Boom! ✈️ Supersonic travel is back and...