Talk:The Sound Barrier
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Please refer to Category:Film articles by quality. This article needs at least a good plot section and something on reception by the public or critics, to become class start. Hoverfish 22:58, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Plot differences? In the DVD forming part of "The David Lean Centenary Collection", Ridgefield is neither an oil magnate nor an aircraft designer. The Lawless One (talk) 12:12, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Production: first plane to break the sound barrier[edit]
Production, para 3: "the first aircraft to break the sound barrier was the rocket-powered Bell X-1 flown by Chuck Yeager of the United States Air Force in 1947” - five years before this film was released. But only with the help of a crucially important technical feature developed by British research and donated to the US: the all-moving vertical tail. The British programme to develop a manned supersonic plane was abandoned at a relatively late stage in 1946 in favour of missile research. The film’s central premise is thus not simply a chauvinistic conceit. See Prototypes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_M.52 Perhaps this needs to be acknowledged by more than a footnote. Robocon1 (talk) 19:02, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
That "image" certainly doesn't show an airplane with an "all moving tail". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.234.100.169 (talk) 19:53, 12 April 2018 (UTC)