The film documents the historic flight of the X1 aircraft, piloted by Captain Chuck Yeager, on October 14, 1947, when he ...
Tuesday’s flight happened in the same airspace where in 1947 Charles “Chuck” Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, piloting an orange, bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane.
The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test flight Tuesday in the same Mojave Desert airspace in California where Charles “Chuck” Yeager was the first person to break ...
Tuesday’s flight happened in the same airspace where in 1947 Charles “Chuck” Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, piloting an orange, bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane.
An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound ... Yeager was the first person to break the sound barrier in 1947. It was a step toward ...
The company has said the engine it's developing for the Overture will have 35,000 pounds of thrust and is designed to run on sustainable ... killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground.