Captain Charles E. Yeager, in the cockpit of the
Captain Charles E. Yeager, in the cockpit of the Bell XS-1 supersonic research aircraft. On October 14, 1947, he became the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound an altitude of 45, 000 feet. The Bell XS-1 rocket plane named Glamorous Glennis. - (BSLOC_2015_1_35)
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11062202
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Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
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Everett Collection
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