Who was the first pilot to fly an airplane faster than the speed of sound?
Captain (later colonel) Charles "Chuck" Yeager flew the Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound to become the first pilot to do so. "Glamerous Glennis" rocketed past the sound barrier on 14 October, 1947.

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actually several pilots during world war 2 broke the sound barrier in mustangs and ligtnings and possible other high performance fighters when they went into a dive at full speed - unfortunetly those planes were not designed to do so and broke up so noone survived

Chuck Yeager

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