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The sound barrier or sonic barrier is the large increase in aerodynamic drag and other undesirable effects experienced by an aircraft or other object when it approaches the speed of sound. When aircraft first approached the speed of sound, these effects were seen as constituting a barrier, making faster speeds very difficult or impossible.
The Sound Barrier is a 1952 British aviation drama film directed by David Lean. It is a fictional story about attempts by aircraft designers and test pilots to break the sound barrier. It was David Lean's third and final film with his wife Ann Todd but it was his first for Alexander Korda 's London Films, following the break-up of Cineguild.
The Sound Barrier: Directed by David Lean. With Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick, John Justin. Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
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- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- David Lean
- 1952-12-21
Sep 30, 2017 · Bullets and cannon balls had exceeded the speed of sound for hundreds of years, but the question loomed as to whether or not a plane — or a man — could withstand the pressures that accompanied it.
May 31, 2013 · The first controlled flight to break the speed of sound — also known as Mach 1 — took place Oct. 14, 1947, when test pilot Chuck Yeager breached the barrier using Glamorous Glennis, an X-1...
The Sound Barrier. John Ridgefield, pioneer airman and visionary, manufactures jet planes designed to fly faster than sound. But his daughter, believing that human life is more important than human progress, condemns her father's aims and endeavours as senseless ambition.
Sound barrier, sharp rise in aerodynamic drag that occurs as an aircraft approaches the speed of sound and that was formerly an obstacle to supersonic flight. If an aircraft flies at somewhat less than sonic speed, the pressure waves (sound waves) it creates outspeed their sources and spread out.
