Pilot Jacqueline Cochran becomes first woman to fly faster than sound in USAF jet from Edwards Air Force Base, CA

Title "Jackie Cochran, First woman to fly faster than sound" superimposed over aerial shot of jet flying low overhead /VS member of ground crew towing jet across tarmac with tractor / Cochran in flight suit walking towards camera next to USAF test pilot Major Chuck Yeager / Cochran and Yeager walking up to plane / Cochran puts on helmet // file footage: female ferry pilots of Women Airforce Service Pilots marching in formation at airfield during World War II / two shots of head of WASP Cochran inspecting ferry pilots standing in formation / two shots of Cochran handing diplomas to women who have graduated to become pilots in WASP / crowd on tarmac of airfield for Bendix Transcontinental Speed Race in 1938 / Cochran walking towards plane / Cochran painting plane / Cochran climbing into cockpit of plane / aerial shot of plane flown by Cochran in flight // current footage: VS Cochran climbing into cockpit of jet / VS men getting ready to operate timing device / Cochran slides cockpit canopy into place / ground crew walks away from jet / Cochran inside cockpit waving / jet taxiing / two cameramen standing on top of cars shooting footage / jet flying low overhead / jet flying low past camera / man operating timing device / jet flying low past camera / jet flying low overhead / man operating timing device // file footage: air to air shot of jet in flight flown by Cochran as she trains for flying jet // current footage: jet flown by Cochran to break sound barrier landing / jet taxis to stop / Yeager stepping up to Cochran in cockpit and congratulating her / close shot of Cochran in cockpit