Keywords: Photograph of Captain Charles E. Yeager - NARA - 542345.jpg Scope and content 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 General notes 542345 Local identifier 342-C-5027 KE Department of Defense Department of the Air Force 09/26/1947 - Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 05/1948 Record group Record Group 342 Records of U S Air Force Commands Activities and Organizations 1900 - 2003 Record group ARC 654 Color Photographs of U S Air Force Activities Facilities and Personnel Domestic and Foreign compiled ca 1940 - ca 1980 Series ARC 542327 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-342-C-5027 KE <br /> Other Identifier 07170<br /> This is the NARA Internal Exhibit Tracking Number for the Public Vaults exhibit <br /> <br /> Search Identifier siLearning Center<br /> Search Identifier siNational History Standard Era 9 Other versions <gallery> File Photograph_of_Captain_Charles_E _Yeager_-_NARA_-_542345 tif tif File Photograph_of_Captain_Charles_E _Yeager_-_NARA_-_542345 jpg jpg File Chuck Yeager X-1 color jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Chuck Yeager Bell X-1-1 |