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U.S. Air Force retired Brig. GEN. Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier, is interviewed at Hickam Air Force Base Hawaii, on Dec. 2, 2004.(U.S. Air Force Michael Dey, CIV.) (Released)

Retired Brig. GEN. Charles E. Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier, attends the Air Force Association's "Gathering of Eagles," a convention commemorating spectacular achievements in the free world's aerospace development

U.S. Air Force Public Affairs TECH. SGT. Mark Munsey, interviews Air Force retired Brig. GEN. Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier, in front of the Hickam Missing Man Formation memorial at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, on Dec. 2, 2004.(U.S. Air Force Michael Dey, CIV.) (Released)

Left side view of the rocket powered car, driven by former Air Force medical technician Stan Barrett, used to break the sound barrier for the first time on land

United States Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles E. "Chuck"

United States Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles E. "Chuck"

US Air Force (USAF) Captain (CAPT) Brian "Bluto" Schubert, with the 494th Fighter Squadron (FS), F-15E Strike Eagle Weapons Systems Officer (WSO), Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath, United Kingdom, pre-flights his fighter prior to flying sorties against the South African Air Force (SAAF), 2 Squadron Flying Cheetahs at Air Force Base (AFB) Louis Trichardt

Stan Barrett, former Air Force medical technician, stands beside the rocket powered car in which he will attempt to break the sound barrier

Technical Sergeant (TSGT) John W. Varner, quality assurance inspector, 1ST Special Operations Wing, replaces a broken cockpit window on a C-130E Hercules aircraft. The damage occurred when the plane encountered a hailstorm while on a routine mission from

Ret. Brig. GEN. Charles "Chuck" Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier in-flight, left, discusses aerodynamics with Stan Barrett. A former Air Force medical technician, Barrett is the first man to break the sound barrier on land

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Base: Edwards Air Force Base

State: California (CA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: MASTER SGT. Paul J. Harrington

Release Status: Released to Public

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01/06/1980
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label_outline Explore Aerodynamics, Sound Barrier, Yeager

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. David Snapp a mortarman

Brig. Gen. Jose M. Rosado, Commander, 65th Regional Readiness Command, was allowed to come aboard American Airlines and speak to the members of the 266 Ordinance Company from Puerto Rico and support troops of the Continental U.S. (CONUS) who have just arrived to Puerto Rico from Kuwait. Here we see a pilot from American Airlines getting names put onto the American Flag. (U.S. Army photo by Joseph Bonet) (Released)

Major General Reed Ernst, Deputy Commander Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Reserve Mobility and past commander of the 193rd Special Operations Wing signs the EC-130E Hercules number 63-7783 after a decommissioning ceremony as Colonel (ret) Nickolas Bereschak past commander of the 193rd Tactical Electronics Warfare Group watches. The aircraft is the first to be decommissioned as part of the units conversion to C-130J's

Photographer's Mate 3rd Class (PH3) Wes Corliss records synch sound as PH1 Ed Jennings, motion picture crew director, conducts a film interview with children of the USS NEW JERSEY (BB 62) crew members. The battleship is returning to home port after 11 months at sea

Maj. Gen. Laura Yeager, incoming 40th Infantry Division

SSGT Steve Rasmussen, left, and TSGT Chuck Christie, both electronic maintenance technicians with the 6949th Electronic Security Squadron, monitor equipment at a systems maintenance station aboard a 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing RC-135 Stratolifter aircraft

An F-16 Fighting Falcon from the 421st Expeditionary

Somewhere over the Philippine Sea a US Navy (USN) F/A-18F Super Hornet, Strike Fighter Squadron 102 (VFA-102), Diamondbacks, Naval Air Station (NAS) Atsugi, Japan (JPN), breaks the sound barrier during a fly-by over the aircraft carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) [not shown]

Col. Barry Cornish, 99th Air Base Wing commander, and

Co-pilot 1ST LT. Stan Jaicks, 41st Military Airlift Squadron, explains to former hostage Mithileshwar Singh the route that their C-141B Starlifter aircraft is taking to reach Rhein-Main Air Base, West Germany, from Damascus, Syria. Singh, an Indian citize

SSGT Chuck Hensley of the 55th Organizational Maintenance Squadron takes notes at radio maintenance station No. 2 aboard an EC-135 Stratolifter "Looking Glass" aircraft of the 2nd Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, prior to a mission. Named "Glory Trip 143GB," the mission will be the first remote launch of a silo-housed Minuteman III missile by an aircraft based at Offutt. The missile will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

U.S. Air Force Brig. GEN. (Retired) Thornton E. Becklund, formerly assigned to the 119th Fighter Wing"Happy Hooligans", North Dakota Air National Guard, on the ladder of a F-4D Phantom II aircraft. The Happy Hooligans flew the F-4D Phantom II aircraft for 1977 to 1990. (A3604) (U.S. Air Force PHOTO) (Released)

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