Faster than Sound. On 14 October 1947 Chuck Yeager , one of the finest pilots in the US air force, attempted to break the sound barrier. Strapped into an experimental craft powered by a rocket, Yeager risked his life in a bid to become the fastest man alive. This dramatic reconstruction of events uses eyewitness accounts and original footage to tell his incredible story. Martin Luther King: Death of a Dream tomorrow at the same time