![]() ![]() Sometimes they’re even visible: the high pressure area can cause water vapour to condensate into liquid droplets, briefly forming a cloud around the plane.įind the answer to more baffling questions in How It Works magazine. ![]() Shock waves would shake old planes violently, creating an apparent ‘barrier’ to higher speeds. Chuck Yeager, became the first airplane to fly faster than the speed of sound (Mach 1). As a plane approaches the speed of sound, its pressure waves ‘stack up’ ahead of it to form a massive area of pressurised air, called a shock wave. Home / Breaking the Sound Barrier: Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 Seventy-five years ago, on October 14, 1947, the Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis, piloted by U.S. A moving object pushes nearby air molecules, which push the molecules next to them, and so on. The sound barrier is simply the point an object exceeds the speed of sound – a speed many scientists once considered impossible. This was one case where breaking something was a good thing. With a passion for aviation design and engineering, wealthy oilman John Ridgefield (Ralph Richardson) is determined to break the sound barrier with the. When Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier with the Bell X-1 rocket plane in 1947, his mum wasn’t mad. Breaking the sound barrier means exceeding the speed of sound at 12,192 metres (40,000 feet), that’s about 1,062 kilometres per hour (660 miles per hour). ![]()
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