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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  Original caption: Captain Charles E. Yeager, the Air Force pilot who was the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound, sits in the cockpit of the Bell X-1 supersonic research aircraft.</li></ul></div>
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Jack Ridley</div>
May 1948<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1948-05-00T00:00:00Z/10</div>
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