General Chuck Yeager Reenacts Historic Supersonic Flight
General Chuck Yeager reenacts his historic supersonic flight
of breaking the sound barrier 65 years ago to the minute . .
. and then talks to the media afterwards at Nellis Air Force
Base, NV on October 14, 2012. (Yeager first pushed his
rocket-powered Bell X-1 past Mach speed in 1947 at 670 mph
and in 1954 broke the sound barrier once more in an Air
Force F-15 over the Mojave Desert, hitting Mach 1.4.
U.S. Air Force video by
Airman 1st Class Cody Griffith, Staff Sgt. Jose Rodriguez, and
Airman 1st Class Aaron Hauser U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jason W. Edwards