Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every set went to the varsity, and Coach Barnaby was even able to test his doubles second-stringers without any ill-effects. About all BU got out of the afternoon were the oranges, gum, and sugar tablets provided by the Harvard managers after each match was over...
...said 'yes', and the Atomic Age was born at that moment." Roosevelt goes on to tell of Conant's jobs on the Top Policy Group in charge of atomic energy, his administrative work on the Manhattan project, and his emotional reaction to the New Mexico test of the bomb, which he watched huddled face down in a trench with his associates, "violently intense...
...Ahead. Colonel Boyd believes that Chuck has done just about enough test flying, but he hasn't the heart to tear him away from his beloved X-1. There is still work to be done with the little orange airplane, and it is an open secret that soon a greatly improved model will be ready...
Back from the wars, Chuck married Glennis in Hamlin. As a shot-down man, he just about had his choice of jobs in the Air Force. He tried instructing for a while, but found it dull. Then he got to Wright Field as a flight test pilot. After watching him do the most exacting tests (like landing jet fighters "hard"), Colonel Boyd gave him the X-1 project, which all ambitious test pilots wanted. "Chuck is always cool," says Colonel Boyd. "He never gets excited, and he flies like part of the airplane...
...Glennis and tell her that the flight was "like all the rest of them." After a while, Chuck Yeager's friends hope, the Old Man will transfer him to some other Air Force job where promotion steps faster than the death that rides in the cockpit with every test pilot. From that day, others, to whom Chuck Yeager has pointed the way, will carry on with flight beyond the sonic wall...