Word: yeager
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ambulances took positions in the ominous line. Two F-86 Sabre jets, a photographic and an observer plane, took off, blowing clouds of dust across the field. Another F-86 already in the air circled the field and landed. Its pilot was the Air Force's Major "Chuck" Yeager (TIME, April 18, 1949), the first man to fly faster than sound. He would fly "chase" on the X3, watching for the beginnings of trouble. As he taxied up to the line, other jets took off, and soon Muroc echoed with the clattering scream of their engines...
...Yeager flew close beside it, playing seeing-eye dog to its blind pilot...
Bridgeman to Yeager: "This thing doesn't want to stay...
...Yeager: "Doesn't seem to, does...
Featured pianist Judith Yeager '53 will be heard in her first solo performance with the orchestra. Soloists in the Handel composition are Sandor Shapiro '54, Paul Revitt '55, and Robert Swaney...