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The New Supersonic Boom

Cars That Think

Piloting the bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first person to exceed the speed of sound while in horizontal flight. That continued until 2003, when British Airways and Air France retired their fleets, together amounting to just 12 aircraft. was founded by billionaire Robert Bass in 2003.