🔬 A plane flies faster than sound (1947)
Where: Mojave Desert, California
📅 On This Day: October 14
October 14, 1947: A plane flies faster than sound. On this day in 1947, American pilot Chuck Yeager flew the rocket plane Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound for the first time. A sonic boom thundered across the desert sky. The bright orange plane now hangs in a museum in Washington, D. C.
✨ More events on this day
- 1888 💡 Louis Le Prince filmed Roundhay Garden Scene in Leeds, England. Just two seconds long, it is the oldest surviving motion picture in the world.
- 1968 🏅 American sprinter Jim Hines became the first man to run 100 metres in under ten seconds with electronic timing, at a race in Mexico City.
- 2012 🧭 Felix Baumgartner rode a giant balloon into the stratosphere, about 39 kilometres up, then jumped and parachuted safely back to Earth, falling faster than sound.
🧠 Question of the day
What did Chuck Yeager fly faster than?
- A space rocket
- The speed of light
- The speed of sound
Show the answer
Answer: The speed of sound
Questions
What happened on October 14?
October 14, 1947: A plane flies faster than sound. It happened in Mojave Desert, California.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X-1