Chuck Yeager

[KBayDog]

Apparently, Felix Baumgartner wasn't the only person to go supersonic today.

 

[BusyBee604]

Apparently, Felix Baumgartner wasn't the only person to go supersonic today.

Not only the first, but I would be surprised if not the oldest to boot!
BzB

 

[Recovering LSO]

"This is so cool. I'm excited," she told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "He's in the back seat where the instructor pilot sits because he's the elder statesman."

 

[MIDNJAC]

Pretty cool that he is still doing this at 89, but this isn't the first re-enactment he has done in the trunk of a -15 either

 

[707guy]

Pretty cool that he is still doing this at 89, but this isn't the first re-enactment he has done in the trunk of a -15 either

Last sentence of the article:

"On the anniversary of the historic flight last year, Yeager flew an F-16 to reach Mach 1, the speed of sound."

I think I've heard that he does it every year.

 

[Renegade One]

I think I've heard that he does it every year.

Cool gig if you can get it...

 

[NavAir42]

I wouldn't call flying at Mach 1 on the same date every year a reenactment. A reenactment would be climbing into a rebuilt Bell X-1 and getting dropped out of a B-52 and going faster than sound.

 

[Catmando]

I wouldn't call flying at Mach 1 on the same date every year a reenactment. A reenactment would be climbing into a rebuilt Bell X-1 and getting dropped out of a B-52 and going faster than sound.

Yes. And maybe thinking there is a reasonable chance of not surviving what no one has ever done before in history, and that which many said could not be done.