Meanwhile, in the Supersonic Race, “good ol’ American knowhow” got first dibs, as the legendary Chuck Yeager and the Bell ... airplane tandem to exceed Mach 1 speed. Say privyet to Polkovnik ...

Chuck Yeager and flown the XS-1 through "the sound barrier," something many experts had believed might not be possible. His ...

reaching 750 miles per hour (Mach 1.12) near Barstow, California. You might be wondering why this is news. Since Chuck Yeager’s first sonic boom in 1947, thousands of military aircraft have broken the ...

On October 14, 1947, US Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 experimental plane at Mach 1 some 40,000 feet over the Mojave Desert, becoming the first human to travel faster than the speed ...

Slick Goodlin was a test pilot for Bell Laboratories and made numerous flights in the X-1 before it was transferred to the military for the sound barrier attempt. In 1947, Chuck Yeager was a ...

Chuck Yeager, the legendary pilot and retired Air Force brigadier general who broke the sound barrier in 1947, has died By Jared Keller Updated on Dec 8, 2020 Chuck Yeager, the legendary pilot and ...

A fellow test pilot, Chuck Yeager, offered to do it for free ... he hit a top speed of Mach 1.06, or 700 miles per hour, proving that the sound barrier was in fact a passable threshold.