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Aviation History: Breaking the Sound Barrier

In October 1947 a pilot with two cracked ribs was dropped from a bomber over the California desert and flew faster than sound. A B2 retelling of the Bell X-1, the broom handle that closed its hatch and the moving tailplane that made it possible, with a sequencing exercise.

Aviation History: Breaking the Sound Barrier
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