Chuck Yeager and Stan Barrett. Former US pilot Charles Elwood 'Chuck' Yeager (born 1923) talking to US stuntman and former Air Force medical technician Stan Barrett (born 1943) next to the Budweiser Rocket rocket-powered vehicle. In 1947 Yeager became the first pilot confirmed to have broken the speed of sound in an aircraft. The Budweiser Rocket was the vehicle in which Barrett attempted to break the Land Speed Record in 1979. His calculated speed of 739.666 mph would have made him the first man to break the sound barrier in a land vehicle. However,the attempt was controversial and the speed never officially recorded. Photographed at Rogers Dry Lake,Edwards Air Force Base,USA,in 1980 | |
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