Hi Ken,
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)
Ah, yes, i remember the X-1 and the sound barrier...
But not the name Chuck Yeager... (Sorry Mark ;-)
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.
Oh my god! He's a hero!
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).
Thank you for this one, very compassionate! :-D
Ken N.
Regards
Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de
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