Interesting indeed, thanks wil =]
"The sound barrier is similar to virginity - also a barrier. Although many may have been on the verge of breaking through (sound barrier petting) or some already through this ,,barrier" (such as German pilots in 1944/45, I myself on 9 April 1945 and English test pilots in summer 1945 with the Me262), there is then the one who comes and says ,,yes" before the ,,altar" and is then officially the first (Yaeger, October 1947). The "Wedding Night" however, often occurred years earlier."
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