Was Chuck Yeager the First to Break the Sound Barrier? The story of how Captain Chuck Yeager opened the throttles of the Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis in October 1947 is well known. Breaking the sound barrier was to aviation what Neil Armstrong's first step was to the space program. Yeager's name will always sit atop every list of record-breaking pilots, up there by himself in his own special stratosphere. But, was he really the first pilot to fly faster than sound?|Read More| Posted by sonicbom on Wednesday, September 30 @ 07:59:18 MDT (29938 reads)

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