Oct
14
I learned how to push a machine without it biting me
On October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first man to pilot the Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, above the California desert at Muroc Dry Lake Bed. “We just didn’t know what would happen when we reached the speed of sound, because we didn’t have any wind tunnel data. We could put [...]
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