If you're an aviation nut, and I am guilty as charged, you probably know that Chuck

Yeager was the first to officially break the sound barrier in the Bell X-1.

But what about unofficially?

Going all the way back to World War II, we had rocket planes and jet fighters already

vying for that honor, and some say one or more of them may have succeeded.

Today, we're going to find out.

The first to break the sound barrier is coming up right now, Unskeptoid.

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Was Chuck Yeager the first to break the sound barrier?

We all know the story of how Captain Chuck Yeager opened the throttles of the Bell X-1

Glamorous Glenus in October 1947.

Breaking the sound barrier was to aviation what Neil Armstrong's first step was to the

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