(robert arndt) wrote:

http://mach1.luftarchiv.de/weisse_9.htm

"White 9" deserves the credit, not "Glamorous Glennis"!

When you break a speed record, one of the requirements is that you do it
in *level flight*.

Putting a plane into a 40 degree dive kinda takes it out of the running,
especially since some American *prop* planes had probably done it before
1945. From reports, P-38 Lightnings had entered compressibility as far
back as 1941, and some had actually come out of it (not the safest
flight regime, back then).

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