And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Crossfield flew the 15, and some other hot stuff. Yeager was in a chase plane behind him on one flight and when Crossfield found himself wrestling snakes, but made it down safely, Yeager said over the radio "How do you like rocket plans now, son."
Saw a Crossfield interview one evening. Crossfield has run an AC into a hanger wall, leading Yeager to say, "The sonic wall is mine. The hanger wall is Crossfield's."
Perhaps in the F-100 as he was not a X-15 test pilot.
ReplyDeleteI have to laugh. They can't call the F-100 a chase plane because not even a bullet can catch that thing once they light the fire.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Neil Armstrong rode one?
The F-100 was only there to make sure all was well until the launch....after that it was return to base and wait for the touchdown....
ReplyDeleteChuck never flew the X-15, but there are some surprises among those that did.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_X-15_flights
Crossfield flew the 15, and some other hot stuff. Yeager was in a chase plane behind him on one flight and when Crossfield found himself wrestling snakes, but made it down safely, Yeager said over the radio "How do you like rocket plans now, son."
ReplyDeleteSaw a Crossfield interview one evening. Crossfield has run an AC into a hanger wall, leading Yeager to say, "The sonic wall is mine. The hanger wall is Crossfield's."
Doesn’t matter it’s faked just like all those shots including the moon landing.
ReplyDeleteWho sits backwards in a cockpit if there was such an aircraft
That’s a head-down position....not up your a$$.
DeleteSome people's kids...
DeleteAn actual question - didn't all the jet fuel at the time leave a telltale black smoke trail regardless of altitude?
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