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The Sound Barrier is a 1952 British aviation drama film directed by David Lean. It is a fictional story about attempts by aircraft designers and test pilots to break the sound barrier. It was David Lean's third and final film with his wife Ann Todd but it was his first for Alexander Korda's London Films, following the break-up of Cineguild.
Herbert Henry Hoover (May 18, 1912 – August 14, 1952) [1] was an American NACA experimental test pilot who, on March 10, 1948, became the first civilian and second person to break the sound barrier, [2] a feat for which he was awarded the Air Medal "for meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight."
(1952) performance on film then played a test pilot in the popular The Sound Barrier (1952). He was then in Meet Me Tonight (1952) and The Pickwick Papers (1952). Due mostly to The Sound Barrier, exhibitors voted Patrick the seventh most popular British film star with the public, in 1952. [5]
Derry's DH 108 historic test flight was used in dramatized form in the 1952 film The Sound Barrier directed by David Lean. John Justin plays Philip Peel, a test pilot who brings his plane through the sound barrier and out of the speed-creating dive by the untried technique of applying reverse direction to the control column.
From 1949 to 1957 she was married to David Lean who directed her in The Passionate Friends (1949), Madeleine (1950), and The Sound Barrier (1952). She was a member of The Old Vic theatre company and in 1957 starred in a Broadway play. In her later years she wrote, produced and directed travel documentaries.
She set numerous records and was the first woman to break the sound barrier on 18 May 1953. Cochran (along with Nancy Love ) was the wartime head of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) (1943–1944), which employed about 1000 civilian American women in a non-combat role to ferry planes from factories to port cities.
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 ...
Best Foreign Film: Breaking the Sound Barrier; Best Actor: Ralph Richardson (Breaking the Sound Barrier) Best Actress: Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba) Best Director: David Lean (Breaking the Sound Barrier)