Edwards AFB, California -
Sound Barrier Broken Here Statue
In the high desert in Sound Barrier Park, "Right Stuff" test pilot Chuck Yeager is saluted with a larger-than-life bronze 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. Yeager statue and Sound Barrier monument on right, at corner of Rosamond and Muroc/Yeager Drive. Look for the trees and grass.
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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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