The first sonic boom in the high desert of California was doubtless a bullet from a high powered rifle
Who was the first to fly across the Atlantic from US to Europe?
Well, not first to fly from the US, but that's not what I said.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/a-hand-in-aviation-history-nc-4-180971747/
Lindbergh was the first to fly solo over the Atlantic.
The first sonic boom in the high desert of California was doubtless a bullet from a high powered rifle
Who was the first to fly across the Atlantic from US to Europe?
Well, not first to fly from the *US*, but that's not what I said.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/a-hand-in-aviation-history-nc-4-180971747/
Lindbergh was the first to fly *solo* over the Atlantic.
I've read accounts of the first sonic boom over the desert being Major(?) Welch, one of the pilots at Pearl Harbor. He was test flying a prototype jet, IIRC, an F86, and he broke the sound barrier in a dive. After a couple he was told essentially to stop, Yeager was going to try in the X1.****
I've read accounts of the first sonic boom over the desert being Major(?) Welch, one of the pilots at Pearl Harbor. He was test flying a prototype jet, IIRC, an F86, and he broke the sound barrier in a dive. After a couple he was told essentially to stop, Yeager was going to try in the X1.****
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