The rocket-powered Bell X-1. Piloted by Charles ‘Chuck’ Yeager, on 14 October 1947 ‘Glamorous Glennis’, as he nicknamed it, became the first manned aircraft to break the speed of sound in level flight.
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REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH
20
EURO
2020
Reverse description
Concorde in take-off mode over Paris, with the River Seine and Eiffel Tower below
