ronworkman: 65 years ago today in 1947… Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.

ronworkman:

65 years ago today in 1947…

Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.

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Oct 14, 2012 10:23am
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    AND he did it with a broken arm. Maybe you didn’t know that! He got drunk the night before with his wife and they went...
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