Yeager Breaks Sound Barrier: Supersonic Flight
Captain Chuck Yeager shatters the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis, proving that supersonic level flight is possible. This breakthrough immediately accelerates aircraft design, compelling engineers to abandon the rigid belief that a "sound barrier" was an insurmountable physical wall and launching the jet age into practical reality.
October 14, 1947
79 years ago
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