Today In History

Tim PloughNman Daley

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FWIW: On this day, October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in a Bell test jet with a speed slightly over Mach I.


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Now we know for a fact!!! After all these years that Chuck Yeager, George Welsh or Henry Ford was NOT on a SOUPED UP TEST 8N in October 1947 and broke the sound barrier,
 
(quoted from post at 11:25:35 10/14/18) CY also shot down a ME-262 with his P-51 Mustang. quite a guy.

But in his home state still best known to many for his 1948 pass under the Charleston South Side Bridge during a boat race on the river.

According to him just an impulsive moment of fun on his return flight to Wright from what is now Yeager Airport - a pilot's dream perched atop a nearby mountain ;-)

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(quoted from post at 08:25:35 10/14/18) CY also shot down a ME-262 with his P-51 Mustang. quite a guy.

I met Gen. Yeager some years ago at a dinner banquet at the annual EAA show in Oshkosh. I had my younger son with me, who was maybe 10 or 11 at the time. Yeager politely shook my hand, then spent the next ten minutes talking with my son…

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HAHAHA! No, but I'd bet 8N guru Marvin Baumann did wit his version of the TYPHOON he built - a turbo powered FORD tractor. When he fires it up I swear you expect it to sprout James Bond-like wings and take flight!



Tim *PloughNman* Daley(MI)
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I saw an interview with Chuck Yeager a while back on a hunting show. He was big into hunting. He talked about growing up in rural West Virginia. He said at age 6 he and every boy in his 1st grade class would walk to school with their books and a .410 shotgun. There was a gun rack at school where each boy would leave their shotgun while school was in session. After school all the boys would hunt squirrels to bring home supper for their moms to cook. All this at the ripe old age of 6. He said none of the boys ever shot each other or shot up the school. My how things have changed for the worse these days.
 

I remember hunting after high school (not age 6 lol) all the time. I think 1/3 of the high school had shotguns on the rack of their pickups. No one ever thought to do anything stupid with them.
 
(quoted from post at 03:15:33 10/17/18)
I remember hunting after high school (not age 6 lol) all the time. I think 1/3 of the high school had shotguns on the rack of their pickups. No one ever thought to do anything stupid with them.
Same here. Lots of rifles/shotguns in gun racks in the high school parking lot. Everyone carried a pocket knife. I don't recall anyone ever having a problem with weapons at school aside from the occasional klutz playing mumbly peg. :D
 

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