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The test flight occurred in the same airspace where, in 1947, US Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, flying the experimental Bell X-1 aircraft at Mach ...

piloting the experimental Bell X-1 aircraft at a speed of Mach 1.05 and an altitude of 45,000 feet. The XB-1 breakthrough is the first instance of a civil aircraft breaking the speed of sound over ...

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 ...

The XB-1 supersonic aircraft demonstrator of Boom Supersonic ... The supersonic corridor mentioned here is the Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor, the same portion of airspace which was used by ...

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.