Double Breakage

Facebook Share Button Code So one of the neat things about Australian Felix Baumgartner breaking the sound barrier is that he did it 65 years to the day after test pilot Chuck Yeager broke it the first time.

Interestingly, Baumgartner didn't realize he'd traveled faster than sound during his descent, and Yeager, who flew as a passenger in an F-15 to commemorate his achievement, didn't know that Baumgartner was going to jump from the edge of space.

Probably a good thing they weren't traveling nearby each other.