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The High Frontier
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Amateur aerospace historian, rocket plane enthusiast. Beyond Blue Skies: The Rocket Plane Programs That Led to the Space Age coming soon on @UnivNebPress
Dec 12, 2019 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD #OTD in 1953, Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager set a new unofficial speed record in the Bell X-1A rocket research aircraft, reaching Mach 2.44 at an approximate altitude of 75,000 ft /1
#avgeek #aviation …In doing so, Yeager beat the record that Scott Crossfield had set just 22 days earlier in the Navy sponsored D-558-II Skyrocket, when the NACA pilot had become the first person to exceed Mach 2. The intense rivalry between the still relatively young Air Force and the Navy.. /2