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English: Chuck Yeager exceeding the speed of sound for the first time with a Bell X-1 (video) Other languages Deutsch: Am 14.Oktober 1947 durchbricht Chuck Yaeger mit der Bell X-1 als erster Mensch die Schallmauer.
General Chuck Yeager, USAF, Biography and Interview with the American Academy of Achievement; Biographical sketch at the Wayback Machine (archived May 2, 2006) Airport Journals' "Chuck Yeager: Booming And Zooming" Part 1 and Part 2 "Chuck Yeager & the Sound Barrier" in Aerospaceweb.org; Space.com: Chuck Yeager; Chuck Yeager at IMDb
In 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first human to break the sound barrier when he pushed the Bell X-1 past Mach 1 during a flight over the Mojave Desert. Boom Supersonic XB-1 breaks sound barrier ...
Yeager's flight of the Bell XS-1 through the sound barrier in 1947 is reviewed, along with other X-planes, culminating in the North American X-15 hypersonic research aircraft. The film concludes with the flight performance and pilots of the Lockheed SR-71 , and high speed conceptions of future air-travel, particularly the National Aerospace ...
When the XB-1 took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port on its latest flight it was in the same historic airspace where legendary pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in ...
The sound barrier was first broken on Oct. 14, 1947, according to the U.S. Air Force. That's when Capt. Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 rocket-propelled aircraft broke the sound barrier.
Tuesday’s flight happened in the same airspace where in 1947 Charles “Chuck” Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, piloting an orange, bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane. 01/29/2025 17:56 -0500
It was in the X-1 that Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier in level flight on 14 October 1947, flying at an altitude of 45,000 ft (13.7 km). George Welch made a plausible but officially unverified claim to have broken the sound barrier on 1 October 1947, while flying an XP-86 Sabre. He also claimed to have repeated ...