Felix Baumgartner's record of being the first human to break the sound
barrier without being in a vehicle is a reminder that today marks the
anniversary of when Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the
Bell X-1 rocket plane, which took place in the United States on
14th October, 1947.
Yeager's X-1 is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
in Washington D.C.
Read more about Chuck Yeager here -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager
Picture of Yeager posing with
Glamorous Glennis, the Bell X-1 that
first broke the sound barrier, here -
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...uck_Yeager.jpg