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Have we traveled faster than the speed of sound yet?

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yes, ever hear of a sonic boom? its when a plane or rocket car breaks the sound barrier/starts going faster than sound. even some rocket sleds have gone faster than sound
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The speed of sound is roughly 700 mph.  Military jet fighters travel over 2000 mph.

Ever hear of MACH?   Mach is the speed of sound.  So if a jet is going Mach 2, it is going twice the speed of sound.
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Yes, Chuck Yeager was the first person to break the sound barrier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeage...
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Oh yes. The speed of sound is known one way as mach 1. Jets can travel faster than sound, and sonic booms are the result when an object in the atmosphere, like a fighter jet or even the Space Shuttle, exceeds the speed of sound.
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Chuck Yeager flew the X-1 in the 1950's over Palmdale faster than the speed of sound.
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Yes. Most obvious example would be the Concorde aircraft. Otherwise, fighter jets regularly break the sound-barrier as one can notice by the accompanying big bang.

As for light.....nope. And I don't see that one coming in the near future.
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Charles Yeager broke the sound barrier back in 1947.
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