In 1947, Capt. Charles E. Yeager won the Mackay Trophy for the first supersonic flight of the XS-1 at Muroc Army Air Field.  The AAF's XS-1 test program was directed by the Air Materiel Command's Flight Test Division at Wright Field.

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This is one of the best quick reference guides to the research that has been done at Wright Field.  It is available to you here in PDF format.