Word: b29
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chuck climbed aboard the B29. He already knew what the X-1 would do below Mach 1 (the speed of sound). He had flown it many times, working it up gradually toward the critical speed. The rocket plane handled beautifully, both when flying under rocket power and when gliding down so quietly that Chuck could hear the clock ticking on the instrument panel. After each landing, Captain Jackie L. Ridley, Muroc flight test engineer, analyzed the records of the X-1's instruments. On the whole, they were encouraging. But no one was sure what would happen...
Cardenas called the last warning to all radio listeners: "B29 eight zero zero to NACA radar, Muroc Tower, F-80 chase aircraft. One minute warning...
...Force's Bell X-1 rocket plane started its famous supersonic flights by being dropped from a high-flying B29. Last week, trying something new, it took off from the ground for the first time under its own (four rocket motor) power. Piloted by 25-year-old Captain Charles E. Yeager, the first man to fly faster than sound, it streaked across the desert at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif., and was airborne after only 2,300 ft., a shorter ground run than most standard fighters require...
...National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The airmen had experienced almost none of the difficulties predicted by scientists to be lying in the transonic area in which other aircraft had wobbled or plunged out of control (some had disintegrated). The XS-1, launched from the belly of a B29, had also reached altitudes never before penetrated by airplanes-up to 70,000 feet (previous record: 56,046 feet, set in 1938 by Colonel Mario Pezzi, an Italian...
...approximately eight beers after 2 o'clock. CRIMSON LAMPOON c. Prince, nr R. Zwoncus, 2b Beupre, sec Vat, 69 Neverstall, bs Ro. Rheault Hopkins, shrdin Ibis, B29 Leavitt, it R. Zwoneus,ss Schwebel, un L.H. Campbell, 3rd Mephredren, po Schlosinger, 9am Snowball, xxx Lowell, p Wattlings, ayd Cabot, c Conant...