Hitting a speed of about 800 miles per hour, Chuck Yeager broke this barrier in October 1947
..... His Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire... [DOC] [TLE] Meet Brigadier General Chuck Yeager, the most accomplished man ... [PAR] miles an hour, he writes in his autobiography, Yeager, your belly just barely ... 
At approximately 7 a.m., he hit full throttle and dove on Main Street at 500 mph 
before pulling up, doing ... hammering him, when he suddenly broke left and ran 
into his ....