FREE Scripted Bell X-1 Model
Pancho Barnes offered a free steak dinner to the first person to break the sound barrier. At 10:45 in the morning on October 14, 1947, a new sound was heard for the first time in the skies above California's Mojave Desert, the world's first sonic boom. With two cracked ribs, the 24 year old USAF Captain, Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager, flew the X-1 to a speed of Mach 1.07, the first time man had ever flown faster than the speed of sound. Flying high chase, Bob Hoover, also 24, radioed to his pal Yeager and said, "Pard, you got a steak dinner coming tonight at Pancho’s."
To celebrate this moment in time and Pancho's part in it, we are offering a free scale model of the X-1 that plays a recording of Chuck Yeager talking about the historic plane. CREDITS Model: Bell X-1 Author: Helijah (Emmanuel Baranger) |