There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their...
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There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier.
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There was a demon
that lived in the air.
They said whoever
challenged him would die.
Their controls would freeze up.
Their planes would buffet wildly...
...and they would disintegrate.
The demon lived
at Mach 1 on the meter...
750 miles an hour...
...where the air could no longer
move out of the way.
He lived behind a barrier through
which they said no man could ever pass.
They called it the sound barrier.
Then they built a small plane...
...the X-1, to try and break
the sound barrier.
And men came to the high desert
of California to ride it.
They were called test pilots...
...and no one knew their names.
Okay, uh,
Whiskey Kilo 28, prepare to drop.
Roger, Control.
This is Whiskey Kilo 28...
Clip duration: 89 seconds
Views: 636
Timestamp in movie: 00h 00m 00s
Uploaded: 12 December, 2020
Genres: adventure, biography, drama
Summary: The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers prefe
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