- Breaking the Sound Barrier
 - Pictures and links to video of aircraft as they break the barrier. - Concorde@
- Learn about Concorde, the supersonic commercial airline from sites offering history, technical specifications, photo gallery, cultural and political impact, safety enhancements, as well as trivia. Also includes indepth coverage of the July 2000 Air France flight AF4590 crash, investigations, and the jet's return to service.
- Effects of Aircraft Noise and Sonic Booms on Fish and Wildlife
- Results of a survey by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
- Nova: Faster Than Sound
- Covering the flight of the X-1, sonic booms, and speed machines.
- NOVA: Supersonic Spies
- Explore the future of air travel with diagrams, animation and text - and find out what keeps today's Concorde aloft.
- Yeager, Chuck@
- Learn about Chuck Yeager, the noted test pilot and Brigadier General in the United States Air Force, who in 1947 became the first pilot to travel faster than sound in level flight and ascent. Sites feature biography, photographs, his exploits in World War II, and retelling of the events leading up to the first supersonic flight.
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