A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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On Oct. 14, 1947, an aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time, achieving a milestone some had thought would never be reached. A new documentary celebrating that achievement will air on Tuesday, October&nbsp;12, on the Smithsonian Channel.

 


The documentary, "Breaking the Sound Barrier," will examine the life of legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager, who flew more than 300 combat hours in World War II by the age of 22. He was also chosen&nbsp;for the mission to fly the rocket-powered X-1, the first of a line of experimental aircraft that continues to this day, beyond Mach 1.

 


Built by Bell Aircraft, the then-top-secret, bullet-shaped, air-dropped X-1 was designed for one purpose:&nbsp;to fly faster than the speed of sound&nbsp;and explore any mysteries that lurked in that flight regime.

 


The documentary describes the previous efforts that claimed aircraft and lives&nbsp;before Yeager strapped into the bright orange Glamorous Glennis (named after his wife) for his date with history. His achievement 74 years ago changed the course of aviation history and affected how we fly today.

Documentary To Examine First Mach 1 Flight

On Oct. 14, 1947, an aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time, a milestone some had thought would never be reached. 

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