Word: ridley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 at the critical speed. The sonic wall was still unpierced; the big test still lay ahead. Chuck is reported to have remarked...
Chuck Yeager, Major Cardenas (Chuck's C.O. as well as the pilot who takes the X-1 aloft), and Flight Engineer Jackie Ridley are permanent at Muroc. The X-1 is not a transient project but the Air Force's first "research airplane," and it needs both Muroc's room and its walled-off secrecy. The X-1 was never intended as an "operational airplane"; it is more like a flying wind tunnel. Its big advantage is that its rockets, which produce a thrust of 6,000 Ibs., are not weakened, like "air-breathing" engines, by high...
...others, besides Chuck, are Major Gustav Lundquist, Major Frank Everest, Captain Jackie Ridley and the late Captain James T. Fitzgerald...
...Scotland's prewar 158 million gallons in reserve, Ridley's Wine and Spirit Trade Circular noted, 30 millions had been drunk abroad, 28 millions drunk at home, 11 millions blitzed by enemy bombers, four millions lost by evaporation. Only 85 million gallons (all of it choice and matured) remain in bond. Warned Ridley's soberly...
...Major General Clarence S. Ridley is adviser to the Persian Army. Basically his aim is to win over the army from German methods. Most of the general staff and the high-capped, swashbuckling officers have been pro-German. The soldiers themselves, garbed in tight faded khaki uniforms, are undernourished, underpaid. General Ridley is trying to put through an equitable pay system and improve organization...