Oct 14 1947

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The first supersonic flight in manned aircraft in level or climbing flight was made by Capt. Charles B. Yeager (USAF) at Maroc, Calif., in a rocket-powered NACA-USAF research plane, Bell XS-1, later the X-1 (M=1.06).

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