[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 736 Engrossed in House (EH)]


                In the House of Representatives, U. S.,

                                                      October 16, 2007.
Whereas the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and its 
        successor agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
        (NASA), developed and sustained the world's preeminent aeronautics 
        research program after NACA's formation in 1915;
Whereas the speed of sound once presented a seemingly impenetrable and dangerous 
        barrier to piloted flight;
Whereas NACA, the U.S. Air Force, and Bell Aircraft undertook a joint project to 
        develop and test the X-1 aircraft and achieve piloted supersonic flight;
Whereas on the morning of October 14, 1947, an X-1 aircraft piloted by Captain 
        Charles ``Chuck'' Yeager was dropped from a B-29 carrier aircraft and 
        ``broke the sound barrier'' and achieved supersonic flight for the first 
        time in history;
Whereas this flight provided proof of the feasibility of piloted supersonic 
        flight, and delivered the data required to improve high speed 
        performance and develop technologies for advanced supersonic aircraft; 
        and
Whereas subsequent X-plane aeronautics research projects have built on the 
        historic accomplishments of the X-1 aircraft and achieved advances in a 
        wide range of aeronautics research areas: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) recognizes and honors the contributions of the scientists and 
        engineers of NACA and its partners who pioneered the technologies to 
        enable supersonic flight;
            (2) recognizes and honors the bravery of Charles Yeager, and the 
        bravery of the many other test pilots who, sometimes at the cost of 
        their lives, enabled the aeronautics developments that made that first 
        supersonic flight possible; and
            (3) recognizes the importance of strong and robust aeronautics 
        research activities to the well being of America.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.