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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