| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | ... today, on October 14, 1947: "It was just another test mission for Capt. Chuck Yeager. "Captain Yeager arrived at Muroc Air Force Base, Calif., the morning of Oct. 14, 1947, for what would be his ninth powered flight piloting the Bell X-1. "Each of the previous flights demonstrated incremental speed increases as the aircraft neared the theoretical threshold known as the sound barrier. No aircraft had ever flown faster than the speed of sound, and it certainly wasn't in the cards on that October morning. The goal of Yeager's test flight was to achieve Mach .97 -- almost 20 mph slower than sound wave velocity. "However, Yeager exceeded the mission goal by accelerating the X-1 to Mach 1.06, which propelled him and the base into the history books." Yup, the one guy with the right stuff made it happen... | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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| | Posted: | | | | Thanks for the reminder. Gen. Yeager is one of my favorite heroes. It took a lot of The Right Stuff to do what he did. | | | Just in from somewhere left of the middle of nowhere
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| | Posted: | | | | IIRC you can watch Chuck Yeager in the movie "The Right Stuff" as supporting actor. His role is played by Sam Shepard. | | | | Thorsten |
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| | Posted: | | | | Thank you. It still is amazing to me even after all these years. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 811 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting kahless: Quote:
IIRC you can watch Chuck Yeager in the movie "The Right Stuff" as supporting actor. His role is played by Sam Shepard. it's been a while since I've seen it, isn't he the guy behind the bar? |
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Battling Butler: Quote:
Quoting kahless:
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IIRC you can watch Chuck Yeager in the movie "The Right Stuff" as supporting actor. His role is played by Sam Shepard.
it's been a while since I've seen it, isn't he the guy behind the bar? Yes, (IIRC)! | | | | Thorsten |
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