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Contrary to what is depicted in the film, the first aircraft to break the sound barrier was the rocket-powered Bell X-1 flown by Chuck Yeager of the United States Air Force in 1947. His feat was portrayed in the 1983 film The Right Stuff.
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 ...
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 ...
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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)
There’s a scene in The Right Stuff in which test pilot Chuck Yeager, having returned safely to earth after breaking the sound barrier for the first time ever, walks away from his wrecked sonic ...
Nigel Dennis Patrick Wemyss-Gorman (2 May 1912 – 21 September 1981) was an English actor and stage director born into a theatrical family.. During the late 1940s and 1950s, he became known as a debonair leading man in British films, though he could also portray rogues. [1]