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Search The Web This Site for Who was the first man to break the sound barrier in an aircraft? - Bob Cattermole The first man to break the "sound barrier" was Capt. Charles E. Yeager, better known as Chuck Yeager, of the US Air Force. He reached this milestone of aviation history on 14 October 1947 over the test ranges at Muroc Field, now known as Edwards Air Force Base. Yeager accomplished this feat while flying the first Bell XS-1 . Later renamed the X-1, this vehicle was a rocket-powered high-speed research aircraft. Click here to see Chuck Yeager's report on his historic flight. X-1 An interesting historical sidebar concerns the term "sound barrier." When a British aerodynamicist named W. F. Hilton was interviewed on his high-speed experimental work, he was quoted as describing "how the resistance of a wing shoots up like a barrier against high speed as we approach the speed of sound." The newspapers of the period misconstrued his statement to mean that there was some sort of physical barrier to travel at or beyond the speed of sound, so no aircraft would ever be able to reach those speeds. In addition, there was some theoretical work done that had indicated the pressures generated on a body as it neared Mach 1 would go to infinity, and the drag would therefore be so great that no aircraft could pass through the barrier. However, these equations turned out to be based of faulty assumptions that were not valid at transonic speeds.

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103. Yeager, Charles E. --  Encyclopædia Britannica yeager, Charles E. American test pilot and US Air Force officer who was the firstman to exceed the speed of sound in flight. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9077886

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