While we're at it, should we have awards for the first delta-wing
aircraft to break the sound barrier, the first airliner to break the
sound barrier, the first bizjet to break the sound barrier, the first
orange plane to break -- oops, Glamorous Glennis was orange!

Okay, the first puce aircraft to break the sound barrier?

Get real, Canada. You are a splendid country, especially for Piper
Cubs on floats, and the Beaver was s splendid aircraft. Be content
with that.

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 03:58:09 GMT, "Ed Majden"
wrote:


"Tex Houston" The Bell X-1 was a rocket powered aircraft, not a jet!
Ed


And where did that restriction appear in the sentence: "Or, the first
straight winged aircraft to break the sound
barrier -- the
Avro Canada CF-100 piloted by Janusz Zurakowski." ? I just took it at
face
value. Should I have read his mind?

Tex

I could also add the CF-100 Mk-4 was an operational jet fighter instead
of an experimental aircraft but that might **** you off to! ;-)


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