john Szalay <john.szalayatatt.net> wrote in
news:XnsA75A84C763EDFjohnszalayattnet@216.166.97.131:
> Mitchell Holman <noemail@verizont.net> wrote in
> news:XnsA75949D561A47noemailattnet@216.166.97.131:
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>> Jackie Cochran with Yeager
>
> Encouraged by then-Major Chuck Yeager, with whom Cochran shared a
> lifelong friendship, on May 18, 1953, at Rogers Dry Lake, California,
> Cochran flew a Canadair F-86 Sabre jet borrowed from the Royal
> Canadian Air Force at an average speed of 652.337 mph. During the
> course of this run the Sabre went supersonic, and Cochran became the
> first woman to break the sound barrier.
>
Cochran lead the WASP program that I posted
so many pictures of.
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