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The Sound Barrier, in its American title as Breaking the Sound Barrier, was reviewed by Bosley Crowther in The New York Times. According to Crowther, "this picture, which was directed and produced in England by David Lean from an uncommonly literate and sensitive original script by Terence Rattigan, is a wonderfully beautiful and thrilling ...
Through the NACA program, he became the first human to officially break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, when he flew the experimental Bell X-1 at Mach 1.05 at an altitude of 45,000 ft (13,700 m), for which he won both the Collier and Mackay trophies in 1948. He then went on to break several other speed and altitude records in the ...
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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 ...
American test pilot Chuck Yeager with the Bell X-1 aircraft, in which he became the first man to break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947. The following events occurred in October 1947 : October 1, 1947 (Wednesday)
At a speed of about 767 miles per hour, depending on temperature and humidity, a moving object will break the sound barrier. It was not until World War II, when aircraft started to reach the ...
In an interview he asserted that because Yeager was a national treasure the Air Force was unwilling to risk his life in breaking the sound barrier and Welch tested the viability before Yeager was permitted to make his flight. [15] By the end of 1947, the XP-86 had logged 29 hours and 23 minutes of flight test time, most flown by Welch. [16]