Celebrating the anniversary of the first airplane to ever fly at twice the speed of sound: the Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, piloted by Scott Crossfield, achieved Mach 2 on 20 November 1953. The plane is now on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.
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