65 years to the day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the rocket-propelled XS-1, Felix Baumgartner becomes the first human to break it using only gravity.
On October 14, 1947, Captain Charles Yeager became the first man to break the sound barrier during powered level flight while flying the experimental Bell XS-1 aircraft.
Source: research.archives.gov
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