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originally posted by: DrumStickNinja
a reply to: Sammamishman
Easily one of my most favorite fighter jets. Gotta love the gyro assisted piper site and that iconic V shape.
It sure was. About 40 degrees nose down. Yeager was the first in level flight and adequately instrumented. The 1st Sabre pilot to hit Mach 1 was George Welch, a North American test pilot in the XP-86 at Muroc. There were some controllability issues, probably resulting from compressibility factors.nose down.
originally posted by: nwtrucker
a reply to: Zaphod58
Wasn't that in a 'dive'?
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Sammamishman
Based on the evidence available it also beat Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier.