"Yeager's X-1"
From a 20" x 24" Acrylic on Canvas
 

The Bell X-1 was the first piloted plane to fly faster than the speed of sound. Flown by USAF Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager, the Bell X-1 rocketed to supersonic speeds for the first time on October 14, 1947, over Muroc Air Base (now Edwards Air Force Base) in the Mojave Desert.

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