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Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier

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YEAGER
Chuck Yeager grew up in Hamlin, West Virginia, and learned to fly in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II before becoming the Air Force's most celebrated test pilot.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ORANGE
The Bell X-1 was painted a vivid bright orange so that chase planes and ground crews could spot it easily against the vast blue sky over the Mojave Desert.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
RIBS
Two days before the historic flight, Yeager cracked two ribs in a horseback riding accident, but kept it secret from his superiors so he would not be grounded.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
MACH
Mach 1, the speed of sound, is named for Austrian physicist Ernst Mach. Yeager reached Mach 1.06, roughly 700 miles per hour, on that October 14 morning.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier

On October 14, 1947, Captain Chuck Yeager strapped into the Bell X-1 rocket plane, a bullet-shaped craft painted bright orange, and was dropped from a B-29 mothership high above California's Mojave Desert. Despite two cracked ribs from a riding accident just days before, he lit the rocket engine, punched through Mach 1.06 at 43,000 feet, and the world heard a sonic boom for the first time from a piloted aircraft. The sound barrier, long feared as a wall that would tear any plane apart, turned out to be a threshold, and Yeager crossed it with a quiet, unshakeable calm that became the very definition of the right stuff.

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