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Yeager_supersonic_flight_1947.ogv (Ogg multiplexed audio/video file, Theora/Vorbis, length 3 min 4 s, 366 × 274 pixels, 297 kbps overall, file size: 6.51 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons .
Yeager, Chuck, Bob Cardenas, Bob Hoover, Jack Russell and James Young The Quest for Mach One: A First-Person Account of Breaking the Sound Barrier New York: Penguin Studio, 1997 ISBN 0-670-87460-4; Yeager, Chuck and Leo Janos, Yeager: An Autobiography New York: Bantam, 1985 ISBN 978-0-553-25674-1
Chuck Yeager in front of the Bell X-1, the first aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight. The Bell X-1, the first US crewed aircraft built to break the sound barrier, was visually similar to the Miles M.52 but with a high-mounted horizontal tail to keep it clear of the wing wake. Compared to the all-moving tail on the M.52 the X-1 ...
On October 14, 1947 the first individual flies faster than sound. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us ...
Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager, the World War II fighter pilot ace and quintessential test pilot who showed he had the “right stuff” when in 1947 he became the first ...
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The X-1 aircraft #46-062, nicknamed Glamorous Glennis and flown by Chuck Yeager, was the first piloted airplane to exceed the speed of sound in level flight and was the first of the X-planes, a series of American experimental rocket planes (and non-rocket planes) designed for testing new technologies.
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 ...