SUPERSONIC SPEEDS
American Test Pilot’s Experience
Rec. 8 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 7. Captain Charles Yeager, an air force test pilot, said today that he had flown “100 miles an hour faster than the speed of sound, and. then some.” The speed of sound is 760 miles an hour at sea level. Captain Yeager’s flights have been made in the XI rocket plSne at Dayton, Ohio. Asked what was his sensation while travelling at supersonic speed, Captain Yeager replied: “Anybody can fly faster than sound as far as physical effects are concerned. It is no different than sitting in your armchair at home. There is noise, but most of it comes from the rocket engines.” The XI has four rocket engines, developing a total of 25,000 horse power on alcohol and liquid oxygen fuel.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27259, 9 December 1949, Page 7
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