Question: Who is the pilot that broke the speed of sound in 1947 that was interviewed for the book by Tom Wolfe?

Context articles: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
I Am Charlotte Simmons
Chuck Yeager
Oscar J. Corral
The Purple Decades
Mauve Gloves &amp; Madmen, Clutter &amp; Vine
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Right Stuff (book)
Mark Bowden
Radical Chic &amp; Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby is the title of Tom Wolfe's first collected book of essays, published in 1965.
 The book is named for one of the stories in the collection that was originally published in "Esquire magazine" in 1963 under the title "There Goes (Varoom!
 Varoom!)
 That Kandy-Kolored (Thphhhhhh!)
 Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (Rahghhh!)
 Around the Bend (Brummmmmmmmmmmmmmm)…" Wolfe's essay for "Esquire" and this, his first book, are frequently heralded as early examples of New Journalism.
I am Charlotte Simmons is a 2004 novel by Tom Wolfe, concerning sexual and status relationships at the fictional Dupont University.
 Wolfe researched the novel by talking to students at North Carolina, Florida, Penn, Duke, Stanford, and Michigan.
 Wolfe suggested it depicts the American university today at a fictional college that is "Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, and a few other places all rolled into one."
Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager ( ; born February 13 , 1923) is a former United States Air Force general officer and record-setting test pilot.
 In 1947, he became the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.
Oscar Jose Corral (born 16 August 1974) is an Emmy-award winning Cuban-American journalist and filmmaker.
 In 2012, Corral directed and produced a documentary film, Tom Wolfe Gets Back to Blood, which enjoyed a national run on PBS and was screened in more than 40 independent theaters around the country.
 It is the only film ever made about Wolfe, an iconic author and satirist whose stature in American letters has loomed large for the last half century.
 The film is about how Wolfe researched his Miami-set novel, Back to Blood, in South Florida.
The Purple Decades: A Reader is a collection of the non-fiction writing of Tom Wolfe, published in 1982.
 The book contains 20 pieces of Wolfe's best-known writing.
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine is a 1976 book by Tom Wolfe, consisting of eleven essays and one short story that Wolfe wrote between 1967 and 1976.
 It includes the essay in which he coined the term "the 'Me' Decade" to refer to the 1970s.
 In addition to the stories, Wolfe also illustrated the book.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a nonfiction book by Tom Wolfe that was published in 1968.
 The book is remembered today as an early – and arguably the most popular – example of the growing literary style called New Journalism.
 Wolfe presents an as-if-firsthand account of the experiences of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters, who traveled across the country in a colorfully painted school bus named "Further".
 Kesey and the Pranksters became famous for their use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs in hopes of achieving intersubjectivity.
 The book chronicles the Acid Tests (parties in which LSD-laced Kool-Aid was used to obtain a communal trip), the group's encounters with (in)famous figures of the time, including famous authors, Hells Angels, and The Grateful Dead, and it also describes Kesey's exile to Mexico and his arrests.
The Right Stuff is a 1979 book by Tom Wolfe about the pilots engaged in U.S. postwar research with experimental rocket-powered, high-speed aircraft as well as documenting the stories of the first Project Mercury astronauts selected for the NASA space program.
 "The Right Stuff" is based on extensive research by Wolfe, who interviewed test pilots, the astronauts and their wives, among others.
 The story contrasts the "Mercury Seven" and their families with test pilots such as Chuck Yeager, who was considered by many contemporaries as the best of them all, but who was never selected as an astronaut.
Mark Robert Bowden (born July 17, 1951) is an American writer and author.
 He is a National Correspondent for The Atlantic and a contributing editor at "Vanity Fair".
 Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he is a 1973 graduate of Loyola University Maryland.
 While at Loyola, he was inspired to embark on a journalistic career by reading Tom Wolfe's book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test".
 In 2010, in his acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award at the National Book Awards, Wolfe called Bowden one of the two "writers to watch" (along with Michael Lewis).
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is a 1970 book by Tom Wolfe.
 The book, Wolfe's fourth, is composed of two articles by Wolfe, "These Radical Chic Evenings," first published in June 1970 in "New York" magazine, about a gathering Leonard Bernstein held for the Black Panther Party and "Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers," about the response of many minorities to San Francisco's poverty programs.
 Both essays looked at the conflict between black rage and white guilt.