Charles Yeager was the first person ever to pilot an aircraft beyond the speed of sound.
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Chuck Yeager.
Chuck Yeager was the first. They have to be highly trained.
The first flight at faster than the speed of sound occurred on 14 October 1947. The aircraft was the Bell X-1 and the pilot was Captain Charles Yeager.
Chuck Yeager flew at Mach 1.07 at Muroc Army Air Field on October 14, 1947.
Chuck Yeager
Chuck Yeager is the first person to fly faster than sound (breaking the sound barrier), or MACH 1, on October 14, 1947 during level flight at an altitude of 45,000 ft.
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Hans Guido Mutke, in 1944. He did signifigant damage as the aircraft approached 1,200 miles per hour. He is considered to be the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound, even though eyewitnesses state that he never broke the sound barrier. The ME 262 was the world's first jet aircraft, created by Nazi Germany. It saw brief service in WWII intercepting bombers.
Captain Charles Yeager, flew the aircraft that was faster than sound.
On October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound or MACH 1. He accomplished this in the rocket powered aircraft X-1 developed by Bell Aircraft Company.
Supersonic aircraft.