Seventy-nine years ago, on this day, October 14th, 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 … Continue reading October 14, 1947 – Yeager breaks the sound barrier