Why was It So Hard to Break the Sound "Barrier"?

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On October the 14th, 1947, a bright orange Bell X1 research aircraft was released from the Bombay of a B-29 mother ship high over the Mojave Desert. The pilot, Charles E. Chuck Jagger, immediately lit all four chambers of the X1's rocket engine, sending the tiny bullet-shaped craft rocketing into the stratosphere. Less than a minute later, a sonic ... Read More