At Muroc Air Force Base in California on a Tuesday morning, in the now-legendary Bell X-1, Captain Chuck Yeager made history. He made it actually with two broken ribs (courtesy of a horseriding accident), with no one knowing except Captain Jack Ridley.
More information:
"Celebrating 75 Years of Air Force Technology" by Linda Bell (September 2022 Aerospace & Defense Technology, pp. 6-11).
https://www.space.com/16709-breaking-th ... rrier.html
https://www.afhistory.af.mil/FAQs/Fact- ... d-barrier/
Breaking of the Sound Barrier (12 October 1947)
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