Today is the anniversary of Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier in 1947. The sound barrier was the invisible brick wall in the sky that was so feared by many pilots of the day. He did so in the X-1 (X for experimental) over the Mohave Desert in a plane he called the "Glamorous Glennis" after his wife (who he named all his planes after for luck). He also simultaneously became the first person to create a sonic boom.
Great detail on how he was chosen for the program and broke the sound barrier in his autobiography Yeager. Worth a read (or re-read). There will never be another like General Yeager.
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