Comments on: Yeager meister http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/14/yeager-meister/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:08:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: d http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/14/yeager-meister/comment-page-1/#comment-187457 d Sun, 31 May 2009 01:37:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/14/yeager-meister/#comment-187457 For more go to www.chuckyeager.com Thanks For more go to
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]]> By: Yeager Boyd http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/14/yeager-meister/comment-page-1/#comment-114488 Yeager Boyd Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:04:01 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/14/yeager-meister/#comment-114488 Yeager making new records: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlsWD1-fmIk Yeager & Boyd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ9_Y3oGihU Yeager making new records:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlsWD1-fmIk

Yeager & Boyd:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ9_Y3oGihU

]]> By: GaterNate http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/14/yeager-meister/comment-page-1/#comment-51941 GaterNate Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:50:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/14/yeager-meister/#comment-51941 I'm in awe of The BA's ability to still enjoy all the various sci-fi franchises he's into even though many of them feature faster-than-light travel. I'm not sure I'd be able to enjoy a single story that depended on a concept I'd written off as impossible, and watching multiple seasons of multiple shows would probably make my frakkin' head explode. I’m in awe of The BA’s ability to still enjoy all the various sci-fi franchises he’s into even though many of them feature faster-than-light travel. I’m not sure I’d be able to enjoy a single story that depended on a concept I’d written off as impossible, and watching multiple seasons of multiple shows would probably make my frakkin’ head explode.

]]> By: KaiYeves http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/14/yeager-meister/comment-page-1/#comment-51940 KaiYeves Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:17:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/14/yeager-meister/#comment-51940 Congrats, Yeager! Congrats, Yeager!

]]> By: Tom http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/14/yeager-meister/comment-page-1/#comment-51939 Tom Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:56:51 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/14/yeager-meister/#comment-51939 One of the true 'coolness' factors of the internet is when someone related to a post shows up, assuming this isn't an impostor (I don't see a mention of a 'Virginia Yeager' The General's Bio, though his children's names aren't given): http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/10/14/yeager-meister/#comment-135613 One of the true ‘coolness’ factors of the internet is when someone related to a post shows up, assuming this isn’t an impostor (I don’t see a mention of a ‘Virginia Yeager’ The General’s Bio, though his children’s names aren’t given):

http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/10/14/yeager-meister/#comment-135613

]]> By: Yojimbo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/14/yeager-meister/comment-page-1/#comment-51936 Yojimbo Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:23:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/14/yeager-meister/#comment-51936 Jim Atkins - I checked myself, and you're right about the F-86E being the first to have the all-flying tail. I'm not sure I agree that diving the Sabre was not true controlled flight, though. The sources I have say that it was fully controlable except for a slight tendency to nose up as it went supersonic. The big problem was that the power-boosted elevators stressed the airframe, in particular the elevator trailing edge, when pulling out of a supersonic dive, and the controls felt "funny". As for Welch, sonic booms were reported on both occasions, and the same plane was later confirmed at speeds over Mach 1, so it seems pretty clear that Wheaties did better than "almost". :) In any case, my point was not to usurp Yeager, but just to point out that there are some other guys who ought not be forgotten. From one airplane geek to another - salute! Jim Atkins – I checked myself, and you’re right about the F-86E being the first to have the all-flying tail. I’m not sure I agree that diving the Sabre was not true controlled flight, though. The sources I have say that it was fully controlable except for a slight tendency to nose up as it went supersonic. The big problem was that the power-boosted elevators stressed the airframe, in particular the elevator trailing edge, when pulling out of a supersonic dive, and the controls felt “funny”.

As for Welch, sonic booms were reported on both occasions, and the same plane was later confirmed at speeds over Mach 1, so it seems pretty clear that Wheaties did better than “almost”. :)

In any case, my point was not to usurp Yeager, but just to point out that there are some other guys who ought not be forgotten.

From one airplane geek to another – salute!

]]> By: Rob http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/14/yeager-meister/comment-page-1/#comment-51935 Rob Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:38:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/10/14/yeager-meister/#comment-51935 It's also ten years today since the Andy Green became the first person to break the sound barrier on the ground. Fifty years and one day after Yeager's flight. Unlike the flying record, where a human broke the sound barrier only about 6 years after the V2, it took 49 years from the first ground vehicle breaking the sound barrier to the first human doing so. It’s also ten years today since the Andy Green became the first person to break the sound barrier on the ground. Fifty years and one day after Yeager’s flight.

Unlike the flying record, where a human broke the sound barrier only about 6 years after the V2, it took 49 years from the first ground vehicle breaking the sound barrier to the first human doing so.

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