Breaking Sound Barriers In Air and On Land :-)

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Time Line: October 14tyh, 1947

U.S. Air force Captain Charles  E. Yeager became the first test pilot to break the sound barrier as he flew the experimental lBell XS rocket plane over Muroc Dry Lake in California

Remembering Aviation Legend Chuck Yeager | The Heritage Foundation 

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Time Line continues October 16th 1997

British Royal Air Force pilot, Andy Green,twice drove a jet powered car, right here in the Nevada desert,  faster than the speed of sound

officially shattering the world's land speed record.

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Today in history, October 15: Nelson Mandela awarded Nobel Peace Prize | Daily Telegraph

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Avatar eddessaknight -
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CONGRADULATIONS TO BOTH HIGHT SPEEED DAREDEVILS :-)
Avatar Coin Toss -
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Good pos edessaknight

It's a amazing how many things happened in 1947.

Roswell

The US Army Air Corps became the US Air Force

A charter was written in 1947 that Israel would become a nation in 1948

Jackie Robinson became a Brooklyn Dodger.

The term flying saucer was coined.

more.....

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