The New Supersonic Boom
Cars That Think
AUGUST 16, 2021
Piloting the bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first person to exceed the speed of sound while in horizontal flight. The most extensive such experiment took place over Oklahoma City in 1964. Fourteen production aircraft were manufactured, but one was scrapped in 1994 and another crashed in 2000.).
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