In 1979, stuntman Stan Barrett took the famous Budweiser rocket car above 700 mph at Edwards Air Force Base in California. It was the culmination of project S.O.S., designed to send a human supersonic on land. Like any extreme exploration feat, there were doubters as to whether the car in fact had broken the sound barrier. Barrett says he hit 739.666 mph, or Mach 1.01, after igniting a sidewinder missile during the run. 

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