sound barrier

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"Even during our religious holidays, even on Good Friday, jets fly over us and break the sound barrier just to scare us," al-Jamal said.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

In 1947, with its X-1 plane, the team became the first in the history of human flight to break the sound barrier.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

Chief Executive Bryon Hargis said it isn’t the straightforward engineering of quintupling the sound barrier that has held the U.S. back, but the manufacturing challenge of mass-producing weapons that can do so reliably and economically.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Intense sonic booms could be heard overhead as Israeli jets broke the sound barrier.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2024

But the light barrier is different from the sound barrier.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan