“It's an FG-1A, bureau number 13481, but most people know it as Lucky Gallon,” Chuck said. “This aircraft was raced in the 1946 Cleveland Air Races. He took sixth place. That was the first ...

The sound barrier was broken for the first time in 1947, when Air Force pilot Capt. Chuck Yeager flew a rocket-propelled experimental aircraft across the Mojave Desert -- taking off from the ...

Air Force test pilot Captain Charles Elwood ("Chuck") Yeager ... test pilots Jack Woolams and Chalmers Goodlin. Two more X-1 ...

The sound barrier was first broken on Oct. 14, 1947, according to the U.S. Air Force. That's when Capt. Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 rocket-propelled aircraft broke the sound barrier.