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Breaking the Sound Barrier
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14/10/1947, Captain Charles “Chuck” Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than sound in controlled level flight. Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 “Glamorous Glennis”, named after his wife. He was able to reach 670-mph or Mach 1.015 at Muroc Dry Lake, California.
Music: Jean Michel Jarre - ‘Oxygene Part II’
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July 5th, 2009
The music : Oxygène …
The music : Oxygène 2 by Jean-Michel Jarre. Juste great!
July 5th, 2009
True, but what I …
True, but what I mean is that all the mystique of the sound barrier was a bunch of BS, when it had been achieved years earlier on several occasions.
Obviously it could’ve been achieved in level flight.
*shrugs*
Although I am a bit stunned that the Me-163 apparently didn’t break the barrier in level flight.
July 5th, 2009
George Welch’s …
George Welch’s attempt was never confirmed and was certainly not official, and again in a dive. Furthermore, the F-86 was directly decended from “aquired” German designs. The X-1 would have never gotten off the ground without the British jet engine, and the aerodynamic research done on the Miles M.52 two years before, which was all given to the U.S. without credit.
July 5th, 2009
It was the first …
It was the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in “controlled, level flight”. The Me-262 and other prop driven ww2 aircraft could break the sound barrier, but only in a dive. A maneuver that usually killed them as their elevators locked up.
July 5th, 2009
Actually the X-1 …
Actually the X-1 wasn’t the first plane to break the sound barrier… the Me-262 and Me-163 could go supersonic in dives.
As could the F-86 Sabre; do some research on George Welch… he broke the sound barrier just 2 weeks before Yeager’s official incident.
July 5th, 2009
The steam engine, …
The steam engine, railways, jet engines were all invented by the British. When did the Americans claim these inventions as there own? And, everyone knows that rocketry was pioneered in Germany. STFU you stupid Anglophile.
July 5th, 2009
Correction on some …
Correction on some of your examples.
–Mass production- Eli Terry (usa) 1814
–Industrial revolution is not an invention. It’s a phase that started in England but one in which many countries took part developing their own technology.
–Computers- The U.S. contributed to the invention of the computer before england back in 1942 with the Atanasoff-Berry Computer and we lead in computer technology today.
–USA made first supersonic plane.
I wish you weren’t such a .
July 5th, 2009
I remember hearing …
I remember hearing this music in a movie called “Galipoli” with mel Gibson
July 5th, 2009
I live in UK, but …
I live in UK, but am American. I know fully how much British tech was forced out of UK by us, oftentimes totally dishonestly. British inventions include steam engines, mass production, industrial revolution, railways, steam turbines, jets, computers, supersonic aerodynamics, you name it! We stole much from Germany too, spoils of war, but we took it. When you made your own A & H bombs we made you buy ours. When your rocketry got good we made it stop. I wish more Americans would show more respect!
July 5th, 2009
I aware of that. …
I aware of that. Add it to the list of technology we gave to the US, or destroyed because they told us to. The Jet Engine, the BAC TSR2.. they also shut us out of the Manhatten project after they had their bomb. We invent it, give it to the Yanks, shortly before the Soviets steal it.
July 5th, 2009
Anyone interested …
Anyone interested in this subject really has to watch “Miles M 52 vs Bell X1″ on you tube. Like with rocketry, we often got our technology from other countries, and we should all be more aware of their achievements
July 5th, 2009
earlier that same …
earlier that same day there was a boom from the sky, while an F-86 was flying, but there wasn’t any telemetry to support it. Read an article in Air and Space Smithsonian, but I can’t recall which issue.
July 5th, 2009
Indeed, it was a B- …
Indeed, it was a B-29 super fortress bomber as the enola gay!
@sonicbomb: Is that actually original footage? and have you seen “The Right Stuff”? (I’m sure you have..)
July 5th, 2009
im pretty sure …
im pretty sure thats the enola gay
July 5th, 2009
when someone does …
when someone does indeed break the sound barrier what you see is a white halo areound the craft wich is umed to be becouse of the drop of air pressure areound the craft making condensed water droplets
July 5th, 2009
its not a boom
its not a boom
July 5th, 2009
ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha
July 5th, 2009
Thank you
got it … 
got it:)
Thank you
July 5th, 2009
Music: Jean Michel …
Music: Jean Michel Jarre - ‘Oxygene Part II’
July 5th, 2009
SOmebody please …
SOmebody please tell me the name of the music playing on a background?? It brought up some childhood memories.
July 5th, 2009
where’s the kaboom? …
where’s the kaboom?…there was supposed to be a kaboom!
July 5th, 2009
Ooooo…Is that …
Ooooo…Is that Oxygen I hear playing…shwizel-styx that retoNiftykewl
July 5th, 2009
its not actually a …
its not actually a barrier
July 5th, 2009
I did not see the …
I did not see the sound barrier
July 5th, 2009
You have some …
You have some really good videos, I’m subscribing. cheers .