How Chuck Yeager broke the Sound Barrier - The Complete Mission - KSP RSS/RO

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76 years ago, October 14th 1947, Chuck Yeager embarked on his Bell XS-1 "Glamorous Glennis", carried by a B-29 at Muroc airforce base. While having two broken ribs, he, the USAF and NACA marked history with this milestone, crucial in developing technologies and knowledge both for planes and manned space exploration.

This video is a full recreation of the mission, as accurate as it could get, in the game Kerbal Space Program.
The whole mission was flown from the cockpit, but the video has some external views as well, some archives images and original crew conversations (from X-1A flight).
This was definitely a challenging and fun mission to do, as well as learning a lot about the outstanding research and systems from that time !

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Music used :
J. Monaco/C. Newman · It's a Whole New Thing · Will Osborne and His Slide Music · Lynn Burroughs · ℗ Bellefield Archives - (1939)
F. Waller · Old Yazoo · The Boswell Sisters · ℗ Milestones Records - (1932)
The music in this video is purely used for content creation purpose, without any monetization. I do not own the tracks used.
For any copyright issues, please contact me by email.

Ressources :
credit to Retro Space HD for the X-1A footage and audio archive
“Sound Barrier, The Rocky Road to MACH 1.0+”, by Peter Caygill
Miller.J (2001) "The X-Planes: X-1 to X-45."
Chuck Yeager XS-1 mission log : https://www.chuckyeager.com/wp-conten...
Incredible and accurate illustration of the XS-1 cockpit, by artist Jean-Luc Beghin : https://www.etsy.com/fr/listing/57877...
Air Force supersonic research ariplane XS-1 : report N°1 - January 9 1948 : https://history.nasa.gov/x1/afsrax.html
NASA first 50 years perspective : https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploa...
https://www.chuckyeager.com/
Smithsonian Institution related pages

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Mods used :
RSS-Reborn (Ballistic Fox's Patreon)
Realism Overhaul suite
Blackrack volumetrics (Patreon)
Map the Earth (the high res terrain)
Airplane plus (some B29 and X-1 parts)
ASET / RPM / MAS / FreeIVA / Through the Eyes
Custom made IVA for the B-29
Warbird cockpit IVA for the X-1 and P-80, with edits
Other usual stuff

Video tags : KSP, cinematic, immersive, history, documentary, Real Solar System, Realism Overhaul, first person, POV, visuals, test pilot, speed of sound, XLR-11, record, Muroc, aircraft, plane, jet, rocket motor, supersonic, boom, chase craft, mothership, XS-1, Bell, analog, 1947, 40s, Ace, WW2, space simulator, gameplay.

Timestamps :
0:00 Intro
1:34 Start up and take off
2:56 Climb to 20 000'
4:00 Yeager boards the XS-1
5:56 Release !
6:32 Ignition and climb
7:29 MACH 1 achieved
8:14 Gliding back to base
9:01 Landing
10:14 Outro

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