Hi Klaus, > Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 20:03:59 +0200 > From: Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Who is chuck yeager?
> > Hi Marian, > >> Famous (and highly daring) fighter jock/test pilot... a key figure in >> the movie The Right Stuff. Actually, the most important achievment of Chuck Yeager, and for which he is most well known, is that he was the _first_ pilot to break the sound barrier. He did it on October 14, 1947, in an experimental mission-specific rocket-powered aircraft called the X-1, built by Bell Aviation, which was mounted to, and launched from, the belly of a B-29. He named it "Glamorous Glennis II" after his wife (the first Glamorous Glennis was a P-51 Mustang) At the time, he was purported to have had a dislocated shoulder, but he knew the flight surgeon would ground him, so he didn't report it, made the flight in a lot of pain. In 1990, while I was in the Civil Air Patrol, Lake Tahoe Sqdn, I met him in person at an aerospace education conference (10,000 teachers, high-ranking NASA, FAA, USAF personnel, and other 'living legend' historical figures in aviation) which lasted three days in Reno, Nevada. I consider it a priviledge. Oh, and one more historical item. I think he was the only fighter pilot at the end of WWII to shoot down the famous German jet from a piston-engine propellered aircraft (a P-51). Ken N. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
