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Oct 21, 2026

Unknown podcast

Chuck Yeager, the Bell X-One Glamorous Glennis, and the October Morning the Machmeter Needle Went Off the Scale Above the Mojave

Oct 21 · 4 Mentions

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0:25
I'm Tail Dragger, you're listening to The Hanger, on Radio Hanger.
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0:28
Pull up a chair, because today we're going back to the Mojave Desert to talk about the morning they broke the sound barrier.
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0:34
The morning a 24-year-old West Virginia kid climbed into a cockpit on two broken ribs, used a piece of broomstick to lock the canopy, and flew where no one had ever been.
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Before we get into it, a word from the folks who make this show possible.
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Check them out at AviationSoul.com now.
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1:03
Back to the Mojave in the late 1940s.
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The sound barrier was not just a phrase.
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1:08
It was a genuine fear.
ColdFusion

ColdFusion

The Deadly Race to Supersonic Flight

Oct 17 · 5 Mentions

Dagogo AltraideHOST
2:15
Or did we? As you'll see at the end of this episode, there's recently been new life in the sector of commercial supersonic flight.
Dagogo AltraideHOST
2:23
So today, we'll take a look at the enthralling and dangerous journey of humans breaking the sound barrier, and then we'll finish off with the latest activity in the industry.
Dagogo AltraideHOST
2:32
So sit back, relax, and enjoy the journey.
speaker_3NARRATOR
2:37
You are watching ColdFusion TV.

5 MINS LATER

Dagogo AltraideHOST
8:03
They wanted to crack the code and be the first to fly faster than the speed of sound.
Dagogo AltraideHOST
8:08
But in order to do this, they needed to build a plane and research what happens when you get close to the speed of sound.
Dagogo AltraideHOST
8:14
Before we get to the plane and the man who broke the sound barrier, a question has to be asked.
Dagogo AltraideHOST
8:19
Why do so many things go so wrong when you try to pass the speed of sound? As an
The Tim Jones and Chris Arps Show

The Tim Jones and Chris Arps Show

Joey V's Movies: "Whalefall", a survival film about being swallowed by a whale

Oct 17 · 1 Mention

Chris ArpsHOST
10:42
Go see a movie this weekend.
Chris ArpsHOST
10:44
Uh, next is Larry Connor's USA: The Story Behind the Story: Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier.
Chris ArpsHOST
10:52
Yes, that's his, the story behind the story.
Chris ArpsHOST
10:54
You've been listening to the Tim Jones and Chris Harp Show on 101.9/94.1 News Talk STL.
The Vic Porcelli Show

The Vic Porcelli Show

TheVicPorcelliShow-HOUR01-10-16-26

Oct 16 · 3 Mentions

Larry ConnersGUEST
28:47
Go ahead.
Larry ConnersGUEST
28:47
The man in 1947 who broke the sound barrier.
Larry ConnersGUEST
28:56
Chuck Yeager.
Larry ConnersGUEST
28:58
Yeager.
Larry ConnersGUEST
28:58
Yeager, Chuck Yeager, and of course the principal star of the Tom Wolfe book, The Right Stuff, and later the movie.
Vic PorcelliHOST
29:06
How fast do you have to go to break the
Larry ConnersGUEST
29:08
sound barrier? Do we know? Yes, yes you do.
Larry ConnersGUEST
29:10
It depends on your altitude.
Know Idea

Know Idea

Double Piston Pumped Science

Oct 16 · 1 Mention

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4:27
Yeah.
MaxHOST
4:28
On this day in 1947, an aircraft finally broke the sound barrier.
MaxHOST
4:33
The-
GabeHOST
4:34
Huh.

Unknown podcast

Jacqueline Cochran, the Bendix Trophy She Won When Nobody Expected Her to Win It, and the May Morning at Edwards When She Broke the Sound Barrier in an F-86 Sabre

Oct 11 · 4 Mentions

Tail DraggerHOST
0:43
Over two hundred speed, altitude, and distance records.
Tail DraggerHOST
0:46
The first woman to break the sound barrier.
Tail DraggerHOST
0:48
The woman who built the Women Airforce Service Pilots, the WASP program, that sent more than a thousand women into military flying service during the Second World War, and who then spent three decades fighting the government to recognize what those women had done.
Tail DraggerHOST
1:00
Her name was Jacqueline Cochran.

9 MINS LATER

Tail DraggerHOST
9:44
Cochran wanted to go supersonic.
Tail DraggerHOST
9:46
Chuck Yeager agreed to help.
Tail DraggerHOST
9:47
Yeager had officially broken the sound barrier in the Bell X-One in nineteen forty-seven, and he understood the aerodynamics and the technique better than almost anyone alive.
Tail DraggerHOST
9:55
He spent weeks working through the flight profile with Cochran.

Unknown podcast

Chuck Yeager, the Bell X-One Glamorous Glennis, and the October Morning in Forty-Seven When a Kid from West Virginia Punched Through the Sound Barrier

Oct 11 · 2 Mentions

Tail DraggerHOST
1:12
Pull up a chair because this is one of the great ones.
Tail DraggerHOST
1:15
Let's talk about the sound barrier, not the mythologized version, the real engineering problem that was killing people.
Tail DraggerHOST
1:21
As the war ended and jet engines began replacing piston engines in military aircraft, something strange started happening at high speed.
Tail DraggerHOST
1:28
When a propeller-driven airplane dove at steep angles, the local airflow over certain parts of the wing could approach the speed of sound even when the aircraft itself was flying well below it.

9 MINS LATER

Tail DraggerHOST
10:46
Same room as Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis and the Apollo 11 command module.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:50
The right company for it.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:51
What Yeager proved was that the so-called sound barrier was a solvable engineering problem, not a physical ceiling.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:58
That the right airframe shape, the right control design, the right pilot, and the willingness to push through the buffeting and find out what was on the other side would get you through it.

Unknown podcast

Chuck Yeager, the Bell X-One, and the Broken Ribs He Hid from the Flight Surgeon the Morning He Flew Through Mach One

Oct 8 · 3 Mentions

Tail DraggerHOST
0:01
The night before Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, he fell off a horse.
Tail DraggerHOST
0:06
I'm Taildragger on Radio Hangar, and before you think I'm setting up a joke, let me be clear.
Tail DraggerHOST
0:11
On the evening of October 12, 1947, the man the United States Army Air Forces had selected to fly faster than any human being in history took his wife Glennis out to a dude ranch near Muroc, California.
Tail DraggerHOST
3:22
From there, Yeager would ignite his rocket chambers in sequence, climb to altitude, make his run, and then glide back to the lakebed.
Tail DraggerHOST
3:29
The whole mission from drop to touchdown lasted about 14 minutes.
Tail DraggerHOST
3:33
Now, here's what you need to understand about the sound barrier and why any of this was considered dangerous.
Tail DraggerHOST
3:37
In those years, the sound barrier was not just a phrase.
Tail DraggerHOST
3:41
It was taken seriously as a possible physical limit by a significant number of people who knew what they were talking about.

Unknown podcast

How Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 Broke the Sound Barrier: The Flight That Shattered Soviet Doubt and Changed Aviation Forever

Oct 3 · 33 Mentions

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0:44
The desert stretches endlessly below, white as bone under the morning sun.
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0:49
In a few moments, this man will climb into the sky and shatter more than just the sound barrier.
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0:55
He will crack open the future itself, silencing doubters, stunning enemies, and launching America toward the stars.
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1:02
This is the story of the moment America stopped explaining and started flying, the moment we discovered that some barriers exist only until someone is brave enough to break them.
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2:26
At night, the temperature plunged below freezing, and the stars burned with an intensity rarely seen in more populated areas.
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2:34
It was a landscape that seemed designed for testing the limits of human ambition—vast, hostile, and utterly indifferent to the dreams of the men who had come to challenge the sky.
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2:45
Before Yeager could attempt to break the sound barrier, he and the Bell team needed to understand how the X-1 behaved at various speeds.
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2:53
The aircraft's rocket engine could be throttled to provide different levels of thrust, allowing for a careful, methodical approach to Mach 1.
OK Let’s Learn

OK Let’s Learn

October’s Top 20 Moments

Oct 3 · 2 Mentions

Kevin O'KeefeHOST
14:24
Number 12, Chuck Yeager.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
14:28
He broke the sound barrier on October 14th, 1947.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
14:34
He flew this rocket-powered Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound over California.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
14:41
His orange airplane was carried by this larger aircraft, and it was released so he could begin this powered test.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
14:50
Near the speed of sound, airflow changes can create dangerous control problems, and earlier aircraft had encountered serious difficulty.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
15:00
Yeager's successful flight showed that a properly designed airplane could pass through that speed and remain controllable.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
15:10
Quote, unquote, "Breaking the sound barrier meant overcoming this huge engineering challenge rather than smashing through a physical wall.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
15:19
The flight opened the way to obvious future research in the development of faster aircraft." Really, a very interesting and momentous moment in October.

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