On 14 October 1947--XS-1, Capt. Charles “Chuck” Yeager in the Bell rocket-propelled experimental aircraft was the first man to exceed the speed of sound in level flight, crossing with little trouble an invisible threshold thought to be an impediment to aircraft development and to contemporary aircraft structures. (b/w), Graphic courtesy of NASA
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