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...Paleolithic man. 61. Almost 50 years to the day after the Wright Brothers twirled their first pusher propeller, Major Charles E. Yeager flew faster than any previous pilot or plane. His speed: 1. 600 miles per hour...
...also the 50th anniversary of man's first powered flight, and it was celebrated by two Americans, first Scott Crossfield, flying at 1,327 m.p.h., then the Air Force's Major "Chuck" Yeager, ripping through the substratosphere at more than 1,600 m.p.h., 2½ times the speed of sound. In sport, Casey Stengel of the New York Yankees became baseball's first manager to win five consecutive World Series championships. Native Dancer, a big grey horse with the legs of a champion and the inbred ham of a Barrymore. teamed with TV to make horse-racing...
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...