I am glad I got to fly through “the barrier.” I did it in 1997, and I really never understood the true physical significance until that flight.
Q fr @art_burke Did people seriously believe supersonic was impossible, like they believed that the 4-minute mile was impossible,for reasons pre-ordained by nature? A: Yes & on my 7th powered flight, I thought it might be impossible in the X-1 @USAirForce @USAF_ACC @DeptofDefense
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Just the idea of flight is mind boggling let alone what has been accomplished... so far... to think that 100+ years ago flying was a crazy notion
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The % of people who have flown faster than sound is still vanishingly small
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Shrinking every year.
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Glad you stuck with it!
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I am reading Bob Hoover's book and I just got to the part about your powered X1 flight. I didn't know you did so many unpowered flights in the X1.
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Would you mind going into why you initially thought supersonic was impossible?
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I doubt that the engineers thought it was impossible. The V2 flew at Mach 3 and it was stable. They probably had questions about how controllable supersonic flight was. I don’t know what the pilots thought about it though.
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Too simplistic with 20-20 hindsight. How old are you?
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