{"id":7798,"date":"2026-10-14T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7798"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:03:18","slug":"faster-than-the-speed-of-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7798","title":{"rendered":"Faster Than the Speed of Sound!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13642\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13642\" class=\"wp-image-13642 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Chuck-Yeager-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Chuck Yeager and Glamorous Glennis\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chuck Yeager and the Glamorous Glennis<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager in 1947<\/strong> flew a BellX-1 airplane, the <i>Glamorous Glennis<\/i>, at Mach 1.07 over Muroc Dry Lake Bed in California. He successfully conducted the first faster than sound flying experiment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Felix Baumgartner in 2012<\/strong> jumped from a hot-air balloon at a height of 24 miles to freefall to earth. He reached a speed of 843.6 miles per hour (Mach 1.25), becoming the first person to break the sound barrier without a vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager in 1947 flew a BellX-1 airplane, the Glamorous Glennis, at Mach 1.07 over Muroc Dry Lake Bed in California. He successfully conducted the first faster than sound flying experiment. Felix Baumgartner in 2012 jumped from a hot-air balloon at a height of 24 miles to freefall to earth. He reached <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7798' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4693,3039,618,3038,3042,3040,3041,3032],"class_list":["post-7798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4693","tag-bellx-1","tag-california","tag-chuck-yeager","tag-felix-baumgartner","tag-glamorous-glennis","tag-muroc-dry-lake-bed","tag-october-14","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7798"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28741,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798\/revisions\/28741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}