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Gulbert · « **Reply #1 on:** February 07, 2003, 05:43:59 AM »

Chuck Yeager

Bonden · « **Reply #2 on:** February 07, 2003, 06:14:41 AM »

That would be Yeager

Widewing · « **Reply #3 on:** February 07, 2003, 08:36:48 AM »

The second man through the sound barrier.

My regards,

Widewing

udet · « **Reply #4 on:** February 07, 2003, 09:28:55 AM »

the first one who actually lived through

Shiva · « **Reply #5 on:** February 07, 2003, 09:50:33 AM »

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Originally posted by Widewing
The second man through the sound barrier.

Actually, he's no more than the fifth or sixth man through the sound barrier, considering the annotations in the Me 262 A-1 Pilot's Handbook (ref: F-SU-111-ND dated 10 January 1946, issued by Headquarters AIR Material Command, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, classification cancelled 3 June 1955), from the British test pilots evaluating the plane:

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Speeds of 950 km/hr (590 mph) are reported to have been attained in a shallow dive 20° to 30° from the horizontal. No vertical dives were made. At speeds of 950 to 1000 km/hr (590 to 620 mph) the air flow around the aircraft reaches the speed of sound, and it is reported that the control surfaces no longer affect the direction of flight. The results vary with different airplaces; some wing over and dive while others dive gradually. It is also reported that once the speed of sound is exceeded, this condition disappears and normal control is restored.

The conditions experienced by Hans Guido Mutke during his flight on 9 Apriil, 1945 match the description given by the British test pilots. Additionally, both Welch (in the XP-86) and Goodlin (in the X-1) exceeded Mach 1 in dives prior to Yeager's flight.

Yeager's distinction is that he is the first man to have exceeded Mach 1 in level flight[/u].

Gloves · « **Reply #6 on:** February 07, 2003, 10:47:40 AM »

Bell X-1A

Glamourous Glynnis

MiloMorai · « **Reply #7 on:** February 07, 2003, 12:10:25 PM »

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Originally posted by Gloves
Bell X-1A

Glamourous Glynnis

That was the X-1, the one with the side hatch he named after his wife.

http://www.edwards.af.mil/history/images/yeag-2.jpg

Widewing · « **Reply #8 on:** February 07, 2003, 10:26:45 PM »

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Originally posted by Shiva

The conditions experienced by Hans Guido Mutke during his flight on 9 Apriil, 1945 match the description given by the British test pilots. Additionally, both Welch (in the XP-86) and Goodlin (in the X-1) exceeded Mach 1 in dives prior to Yeager's flight.

Yeager's distinction is that he is the first man to have exceeded Mach 1 in level flight[/u].

No Me 262 ever exceeded Mach one. It had a critical Mach of 0.87, and exceeding that by just a few percent would likely prove fatal.

For that matter, no F-80 Shooting Star ever approached Mach one, the fastest ever recorded was an F-80C at Mach 0.94 in a dive.

Goodlin never exceeded Mach 0.81 in any dives. That story was debunked years ago.

Welch is the only candidate who had an aircraft capable of exceeding Mach one. Moreover, the evidence supporting Welch as being the first is overwhelming. He never received credit because the USAF was concerned with protecting the funding for their research planes, which would have been jeopardized should the news leak out that a prototype of a production aircraft beat the mighty XS-1 (later X-1) to the record.

My regards,

Widewing

qts · « **Reply #9 on:** February 08, 2003, 03:59:30 AM »

Didn't the Arado exceed mach 1 in a dive? IIRC it landed but was significantly damaged.

bigUC · « **Reply #10 on:** February 08, 2003, 04:04:56 AM »

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Originally posted by MiloMorai
That was the X-1, the one with the side hatch he named after his wife.

Why would anyone name a hatch after his wife? Could it be a reference to "hatchet"?

brady · « **Reply #11 on:** February 08, 2003, 07:16:27 AM »

Chuck Yeager, it is:)