john Szalay john.szalayatatt.net wrote in
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Mitchell Holman wrote in
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Jackie Cochran with Yeager

Encouraged by then-Major Chuck Yeager, with whom Cochran shared a
lifelong friendship, on May 18, 1953, at Rogers Dry Lake, California,
Cochran flew a Canadair F-86 Sabre jet borrowed from the Royal
Canadian Air Force at an average speed of 652.337 mph. During the
course of this run the Sabre went supersonic, and Cochran became the
first woman to break the sound barrier.



Cochran lead the WASP program that I posted
so many pictures of.