Edwards AFB, California - Sound Barrier Broken Here Statue

Address:
225 N. Rosamond Blvd, Edwards AFB, CA
Directions:
Hwy 14 exit 55 (or Hwy 58 exit 186) and drive east (or south) on Rosamond Blvd. onto the base. The Yeager statue and Sound Barrier monument will be on the right, at the corner of Rosamond and Muroc/Yeager Drive. Look for the trees and grass -- there aren't many of either out here.

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Edwards AFB, California - Test Pilot Yeager Gets Another Statue
Brigadier General Charles "Chuck" Yeager, the pilot who first broke the sound barrier back in 1947, was honored on August 31 with a slightly-larger-than-life-size bronze statue of himself. The statue stands in "Sound Barrier Park," a small patch of grass and trees on the corner of Yeager and Rosamond Blvds, at Edwards Air Force Base in California.... [09/17/2006] Complete News Story

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