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...most objective yet seen. Congratulations. Out of fairness, a correction must be made in reference to the Rocket Powered Bell XIA. Although it was indeed the Bell XIA which flew both to 1,650 m.p.h. and 90,000 ft., it was not I, but Major Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, my friend of long standing, who attained this speed (and incidentally, nearly gave his life), while accomplishing always hazardous high-speed research during 1953. Following his flights, and with the assistance of Colonel Jack Ridley, the NACA, and many others, it then became my privilege to be the first man to attain...
...touch football, Lowell should not have much difficulty bettering its past records. The team has not won a game in three years. Steve Anderson, Len Levine, Mike Berger and Paul Pawlowski will probably be of most assistance in ending the losing streak. Bob Dubinsky, John Yeager, and Cliff Rand are expected to lead a strong soccer team, which also includes Ted Weyer and Mike Klein...
...machines were no more fantastic than the men who uneasily controlled them. The Air Force's "Chuck" Yeager (TIME, April 18, 1949), first man to hurtle through the sound barrier (in Bell's X-I), makes an entrance in Bridgeman's book that is worthy of jet-age grand opera-and typical of Yeager. As Bridgeman started his first rocket flight in the Skyrocket, bright sunlight made it difficult to read the dials in the cockpit. Suddenly a shadow hovered over his face, and a relaxed voice came over the radio: "Is that better, son?" Yeager, flying...
...pilot of an F-84 Thunderjet reported a sense of "befuddlement" on his first five flights, and a "tendency to overshoot in reaching out rapidly with his arm." On the remaining 25 flights he learned to anticipate his troubles. But famed Air Force Test Pilot Charles Yeager,at much higher altitudes, reported "serious disorientation in his 13th second of weightlessness." Yeager, writes Major Simons, "got the impression that he was spinning around slowly in no particularly defined direction. After 15 seconds he became lost in space and pulled out [of his flight pattern]. With his returning weight his badly needed...
...Major Charles E. Yeager, 31, first human to fly faster than the speed of sound (in a Bell XS-1), for his contributions as a test pilot (TIME...