Tag: Sound

Chuck Yeager, the American take a look at pilot who grew to become the first particular person to break the sound barrier and was later immortalised in Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff, has died aged 97.The feat that assured Yeager’s fame occurred in 1947 when the previous second world battle fighter ace climbed right into a small Bell X-1 experimental rocket airplane named Glamorous Glennis that was loaded within the bomb bay of a B-29 bomber and launched over the Mojave desert.Neither Yeager, who had damaged severals ribs...