Yeager pushed the X-1 to a speed of 700 miles per hour (MACH 1.06) to beat the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, at an altitude of 43,000 feet. Carried and Deployed by a Bomber ...

With Goodlin demanding a $150,000 (or, $1.82 million in 2022) bonus for breaking the sound barrier, Chuck Yeager stepped in to see if he couldn’t edge the X-1 past the sound barrier.

The West Virginia International Yeager Airport opened a Chuck Yeager exhibit to honor him breaking the sound barrier. The exhibit can be found in the airport's observation area.

It was in 1947 when man broke the sound barrier for the first time, as well. The XS-1 ... Bell built three XS-1 test planes for the project. The 30 feet nine inches long, ...

Partly based on research by a British project to create an aircraft that could break the sound barrier, Bell Aircraft and various U.S. government organizations collaborated to produce the Bell X-1.

Breaking the sound barrier creates a shock wave known as a “sonic boom.” This occurs when an aircraft moves faster than the speed of sound, resulting in a sudden release of pressure waves. 2.

The location was symbolic, as it was the same California airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947 in the Bell X-1, a rocket engine–powered aircraft that was ...

XB-1 broke the sound barrier in a special piece of airspace called the "Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor" after pilot Chuck Yeager's historic 1947 supersonic flight.

The sound barrier was first broken on Oct. 14, 1947, according to the U.S. Air Force. That's when Capt. Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 rocket-propelled aircraft broke the sound barrier. Reuters ...