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

Turns out, it wasn’t a language barrier, it was a sound barrier.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025

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

At NASA’s High-Speed Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base—the place where pilot Chuck Yeager first cracked through the sound barrier in 1947— engineer John Perry manned an X-15 simulator.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly