{"id":439616,"date":"2026-05-27T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/aircraft-broken-sound-barrier\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:00:18","slug":"8-aircraft-that-have-broken-the-sound-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=439616","title":{"rendered":"8 Aircraft That Have Broken The Sound Barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dozens of aircraft types have broken the sound barrier, far too many to list here. These include almost all fighter jets, many military trainers, various experimental aircraft, and various strategic bombers. For the sake of brevity, fighter jets, experimental aircraft, trainers, and retired bombers will be excluded from this list. However, the list will include the famous North American X-15 rocket plane<\/a><\/span> as the only manned aircraft to fly hypersonically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two passenger supersonic jets ever entered service, only one manned hypersonic aircraft flew, but many military aircraft are supersonic capable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1626,819],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-sr-71","category-supersonic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t