Retired Brigadier General Chuck Yeager was a 24-year-old Captain on that day decades ago.
Captain Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier in 1947
Chuck Yeager made history flying an X-1 jet on October 14, 1947.
USAF: “With all four rockets firing Yeager flies to 56,000 feet in less than two minutes.”
The US Air Force documenting the flight of the legendary pilot.
USAF: “And he does it. The first human to crack the sound barrier.”
Yeager died last night at 97. Carmen Roberts Fox News