Yeager sat in the backseat of an air force F-15 Eagle Sunday morning over the Mojave Desert. It was 65 years to the minute that Yeager originally broke the sound barrier, going past 670 miles per hour in a rocket-powered aircraft. He was the first test pilot to accomplish the feat.
This came the same day that Felix Baumgartner landed safely on Earth after a 24-mile jump from the edge of space, becoming the first skydiver to break the sound barrier.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
