Retired United States Air Force Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager, 89, in the cockpit on an F-15D Eagle fighter aircraft to celebrate the 65th anniversary of becoming the first person to break the sound barrier October 14, 2012, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. In 1947 Yeager broke the sound barrier in a Bell XS-1 rocket research plane named Glamorous Glennis.

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14 October 2012

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