Thursday, March 08, 2007

 

Pilots Tried To Discredit First Rocket Flight Achievement

The first recorded flight in excess of the sound barrier was recorded shortly after the second world war in 1947. It was the famous flight of Air force Captain Chuck Yeager in the Bell X-1 rocket powered engine placed in an aircraft for the first time. Later other pilots claimed that they had broken the sound barrier before Yeager, but they were never able to prove their claims.

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