His feat is tucked in the timeline of aviation history -- somewhere between Chuck Yeager ripping through the sound barrier in 1947 and John Glenn making ... The experimental aircraft was dropped ...

As early as 1928, John Stack ... up like a barrier against higher speed as we approach the speed of sound.” Not until completing its epic drag cleanup tests on American combat aircraft during ...

Before he became the first American to orbit the Earth, John Glenn was famous for ... the shockwaves generated as aircraft push through the air faster than sound. In the late 1960s, before the ...

Flight operations at John Glenn Columbus ... uses a Day Night Average Sound Level (DNL or Ldn) noise metric when measuring the cumulative exposure a person gets from aircraft noise over 24 hours ...

“This is a sad day for America,” John Nicoletti ... After months of flights with the X-1, Yeager broke the sound barrier with his aircraft, which he named the Glamorous Glennis on October ...

John Glenn was called "the last true national ... (played in the movie by Sam Shepard), the first man to break the sound barrier. The most famous pilot in the world, whose achievement in 1947 ...