First pilot to break sound barrier dies aged 97

The first person to break the sound barrier, US test pilot Chuck
Yeager, has died at the age of 97.

General Yeager entered the history books after his flight in the Bell
X-1 experimental rocket plane in 1947.

Kate Fisher reports.

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