Breaking The Sound Barrier: The Supersonic Era Of Fighter Jets

The first person to fly an aircraft faster than the speed of sound was United States Air Force (USAF) Captain Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager. On October 14, 1947, Captain Yeager climbed aboard his Bell X-1 rocket-powered plane for a test flight over the Rodgers Dry Lake in Southern California.



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