Breaking the sound barrier is considered one of the greatest achievements of aviation, but how exactly did we manage to fly faster than sound?

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Gen. Chuck Yeager Describes How He Broke The Sound Barrier
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The Bell XS1 No. 1 streaked past the speed of sound that morning without too much fanfarebroken ribs notwithstanding. And when the Mach indicator stuttered off the scale barely 5 minutes after the drop from our mother B29, America entered the second great age of aviation development.

Ultrafast Camera Captures 'Sonic Booms' of Light for First Time
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"Just as aircraft flying at supersonic speeds create coneshaped sonic booms, pulses of light can leave behind coneshaped wakes of light. Now, a superfast camera has captured the firstever video of these events."

Can You Survive Breaking The Sound Barrier?
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"When an object moves through the atmosphere, it has to move the air molecules in front of it out of the way. As objects approach the speed of sound, air forms a "pressure wave" around the object. In order to exceed the speed of sound, it has to pierce that pressure wave, which can be heard by observers on the ground as a sonic boom."

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