Word: chuckly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High above Muroc, Calif, last week, almost 50 years to the day since the Wright Brothers twirled their first pusher propeller, the Air Force's Major Charles E. ("Chuck") Yeager, 30, attained the highest known speed ever to be reached by pilot and plane. His rocket-powered aircraft (released from a B-29 bomber at 30,000 ft. for the run): the experimental Bell XIA, a new relative of the XI, with which Chuck Yeager first cracked the sound barrier in level flight (TIME, April 18, 1949). His speed: more than 1,600 m.p.h., 2½ times the speed...
...landed behind U.S. lines by North Korean Pilot Noh Keum Suk on Sept. 21 was flown in simulated combat against Sabre jets by Major General Albert Boyd, commander of Wright Air Development Center, by Major "Chuck" Yeager, the first pilot to fly faster than sound, and by Captain Harold E. Collins, who set an official speed record in a Sabre jet. After putting the MIG through its paces, they decided that it 1) has "insufficient stall warning"; 2) has a cramped, uncomfortable cabin with poor heating and ventilation; 3) is hard to control in combat; 4) is "deficient in speed...
...Credited, respectively, to Lieut. Colonel E. L. Hoffman (1926); Major General Albert Hegen-berger (1934); Aircraft Maker Donald W. Douglas (1935); General Carl Spaatz (1944); Pilot "Chuck" Yeager, Designer John Stack and Manufacturer Lawrence D. Bell, jointly...
...stock-car class, the Lincolns repeated their 1952 sweep, finished 1-2-3-4, with Milwaukee's Chuck Stevenson leading the way at an average 93.2 m.p.h. A Porsche led the small sports cars with 80.1 m.p.h., a Chevrolet the small stock cars with 77.1. Chief cost: nine dead...
Diminutive wing Daniel Chu sparks the Brown attack which had had little more success at scoring than the Crimson. A former Mount Hermon Standout, Chuspecializes in setting up co-captains Chuck Gesen, inside, and Chick Swanson, center...