PHOTOS BY CHRISTABEL MIGLIORINI
On 14 October 1947, the Bell X-1 ‘Glamorous Glennis’ became the first airplane to fly faster than the speed of sound – Mach 1. Over the next 15 years, Machs 2 through 6 were achieved above the Mojave Desert in California, catapulting Chuck Yeager, Jack Ridley, Robert Cardenas and Jack Russell into aviation history books.
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