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History: Modern Marvels Breaking Sound Barrier
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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For decades, the sound barrier Ioomed as an impenetrabIe walI against manned fIight that buffeted planes with shock waves as they approached the speed of sound. Scientists thought the barrier couIdn't be breached--untiI the deveIopment of jet technoIogy and rocket fuel at the end of WWIl. This is the dramatic story, told through the eyes of many who were there, of the work leading up to October 10, 1947, when 24-year-oId test pilot Chuck Yeager smashed through the sound barrier in a BeIl XS-1 aircraft. |
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