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Chuck Yeager

"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." ;)
 
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
 
MIDNJAC said:
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
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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.
 
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.
 
NavAir42 said:
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.
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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.
 
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