John Ridgefield, pioneer airman and visionary, manufactures jet planes designed to fly faster than sound. But his daughter, believing that human life is more important than human progress, condemns her father's aims and endeavours as senseless ambition. Starring: Ralph Richardson, Nigel Patrick, Ann Todd. Contains: Adult Themes.

The Sound Barrier is a 1952 British aviation drama film directed by David Lean. It is a fictional story about attempts by aircraft designers and test pilots to break the sound barrier. It was David Lean's third and final film with his wife Ann Todd but it was his first for Alexander Korda's London Films, following the break-up of Cineguild.

Jun 7, 2015 · The film includes interviews with WWII pilots who had experienced the loss of control when approaching the sound barrier, and looks at the history of the work that was done by the British, the Germans and the Americans into solving the problem of supersonic flight.

Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight. Tony, a successful World War II fighter pilot, marries into the family of a wealthy oil magnate who also designs airplanes. The movie traces the company's attempt to break the sound barrier, as well as tensions between father and daughter.

David Lean delivers a profoundly humanist story about the development of high speed aircraft.

Feb 2, 2003 · Ridgefield is determined to build the first jet to break the sound barrier. As Tony volunteers for the exceedingly dangerous mission of flying the plane intended to do so, Sue becomes afraid of her father’s disregard of human life in his single-minded determination to achieve his goal.

The far-seeing aviation manufacturer is driven toward a significant breakthrough, envisioning a plane that can fly faster than the speed of sound. During the war, his daughter, WAAF officer Susan Ridgefield, marries Tony Garthwaite, a young …

But a visit to Farnborough Air Display and meeting test pilots fired his imagination. The result, about the troubled relationship between an aircraft manufacturer, his daughter and her test-pilot husband, raises still relevant issues about the cost, purpose and benefit of technological advance.

Breaking the Sound Barrier On October 14, 1947, Captain Chuck Yeager accomplished what many thought was impossible: he broke the sound barrier and in doing so, changed aviation history forever. Behind this remarkable achievement was a dedicated team of rocket scientists and engineers, and one incredible plane, a Bell X-1