Pictures of Aircraft Breaking the Sound Barrier
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Capt. Charles "Chuck" Yeager, USAF, became the first pilot to fly faster than sound on October 14, 1947. The plane was the Bell XS-1 #1. It reached a speed of Mach 1.06, (700 mph), at an altitude of 43,000 feet, over the Mojave Desert near Muroc Dry Lake, California.