Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier.Yeager, a West Virginia native, was a combat fighter in World ...
O4, 1947, Charles "Chuck" Yeager soared faster than any person before him as he piloted the Bell XS-1 beyond the speed of ...
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de Havilland Sea Vixen

The de Havilland Sea Vixen was the first British two-seat fighter to ever break the sound barrier. Known initially as DH 110, ...
On Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time! Yeager was a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force who ...
The sound barrier is something many people have heard of, but few understand, as it's somewhat of a misnomer. The speed of sound is known as Mach 1 (767 mph), and when an object moves beyond this, ...
Age” with a big bang on February 19, 1958, when at about 10 a.m. a big sonic boom hit the town breaking windows and causing ...
A French fighter jet broke the sound barrier on Wednesday as it scrambled to join a commercial jet that had lost contact with air traffic control, causing a sonic boom that reverberated through Paris ...