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Subject: Re: Bell P-59 Airacomet
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Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in
news:0001HW.1F9A7162017BA74A70000EA332CF@news.giganews.com:
> On Oct 20, 2017, Miloch wrote
> (in article <osd0i50130j@drn.newsguy.com>):
>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_P-59_Airacomet
>>
>> The Bell P-59 Airacomet was a twin jet-engined fighter aircraft, the
>> first of the United States, designed and built by Bell Aircraft
>> during World War II.
>
> <<Snip>>
>>
>> Chuck Yeager flew the aircraft and was dissatisfied with its speed,
>> but was amazed at its smooth flying characteristics. Nevertheless,
>> even before delivery
> of the YP-59As in June 1943, the USAAF ordered 80 production machines,
> designated "P-59A Airacomet".
>
> When did Chuck Yeager fly the YP-59A, P-59A, or P-59B?
>
> He graduated from class 43C in March 1943, and was shipped overseas in
> November 1943. He completed his European tour in February 1945. I
> seriously doubt that he was at Muroc during the war time test period.
> He might have had the opportunity to fly one after the war, but he
> only became a test pilot after the transition from USAAF to USAF, and
> graduation from the Air Materiel Command Flight Performance School
> (class 46C) in 1947. Then he was part of the X-1 team.
>
Yeager went to Wright field in July 1945 to test airplanes
flying everything that was there, US, Captured German & Japanese
aircraft.
Aug 45 went to Muroc with the test pilots as maint officer
the maint officer had to check out the planes before the test pilots
could run thier flight performance tests.
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