In 1953, Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to breakthesoundbarrier as she piloted a North American F-86 Canadair over Rogers Dry Lake, California.
Manager Lloyd Cliff says this is where a lot of Army cadets learned to fly among them test pilot Chuck Yeager, who later went on to breakthesoundbarrier.
In 1997 at Black Rock Desert, Nevada, he drove Thrust SSC to become the first person to breakthesoundbarrier in a car and set the existing land-speed record of 763mph.