(FILES) File picture dated 04 June 1997
(FILES) File picture dated 04 June 1997 shows Britain's jet-powered Thrust car speeding across the desert of Al Jafr in southern Jordan. The vehicle broke the sound barrier and the world speed record with 1,229.54 kph on 13 October 1997 in the Black Rock desert, Nevada. Charles E. Yeager, who epitomized the hotshot fly-boys of the postwar era, broke the sound barrier on 14 October 1947 forever changing the face of aviation. Soaring at an altitude of 45,000 feet (13,700 meters) he reached the speed of sound -- some 1,100 kilometers per hour -- after he and several other pilots in the same program came frustratingly close, without quite managing to breach the barrier. The significance of the flight was enormous: Supersonic speed, Yeager told AFP, allowed the US military to fly "faster than the enemy," but just as importantly, he saId, it opened up space: Star Wars, satellites," AFP PHOTO/JAMAL NASRALLAH-FILES (Photo credit should read JAMAL NASRALLAH/AFP via Getty Images)
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