“Chuck” Yeager made humankind’s first supersonic ... The Mach indicator above goes to Mach 1.5; it was most likely installed after Yeager’s first transonic flight. It’s flanked by ...

Meanwhile, in the Supersonic Race, “good ol’ American knowhow” got first dibs, as the legendary Chuck Yeager and the Bell ...

Chuck Yeager sat in the cockpit as the ur-pilot ... the X-1 reached a speed of 700 miles per hour that bright day, Mach 1.06 at an altitude of 43,000 feet. This was no headline-grabbing joy ...

On October 14, 1947, US Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 experimental plane at Mach 1 some 40,000 feet over the Mojave Desert, becoming the first human to travel faster than the speed ...

Slick Goodlin was a test pilot for Bell Laboratories and made numerous flights in the X-1 before it was transferred to the military for the sound barrier attempt. In 1947, Chuck Yeager was a ...