Chuck Yeager and the IAF

"Bob Fry" wrote in message
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"DH" == Dudley Henriques writes:
DH it's proper place

"*its* proper place" dammit. There are only two spellings:

its -- possesive
it's -- contraction of it is


I'll have to admit I wasn't an English major by a long shot, but isn't the
word "possessive" spelled with two s's and not one?
:-)
Dudley Henriques

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"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote:

Dudley Henriques wrote:
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Funny story:
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Hi...unPrakash.html


Although Yeager is without question one of the finest sticks the
United States military has ever turned out, and he is entitled to
many accolades involving his fine career, the following statement
accompanying the photograph of Gen Yeager from this article is
incorrect.
"The first man to break the sound barrier - Brigadier General Charles
E "Chuck" Yeager, USAF."

In fact, Chuck Yeager was the first man to beak the speed of sound in
LEVEL FLIGHT.
His flight in the X1 at Edwards followed by a week the flight of the
first man to actually break the sound barrier. That man was George
Welch. The aircraft was the North American F86 prototype.
Dudley Henriques

And there are stories of pilots during WWII doing it in powered dives. But
the X1 was the first to do it with only the power it's engines were
producing.

Those stories arose from the highly erroneous airspeed indications in
the transonic regime. No propeller-driven plane has gone fully
supersonic -- limiting Mach for them is in the .65 - .85 range. The drag
of both the airframe and the propeller disk are higher than the weight
and residual thrust of the engine to go any faster in a teminal dive. In
addition, transonic flutter is a major player here.

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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Dudley Henriques wrote:
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Funny story:
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Hi...unPrakash.html


Although Yeager is without question one of the finest sticks the
United States military has ever turned out, and he is entitled to
many accolades involving his fine career, the following statement
accompanying the photograph of Gen Yeager from this article is
incorrect.
"The first man to break the sound barrier - Brigadier General Charles
E "Chuck" Yeager, USAF."

In fact, Chuck Yeager was the first man to beak the speed of sound in
LEVEL FLIGHT.
His flight in the X1 at Edwards followed by a week the flight of the
first man to actually break the sound barrier. That man was George
Welch. The aircraft was the North American F86 prototype.
Dudley Henriques

And there are stories of pilots during WWII doing it in powered dives. But
the X1 was the first to do it with only the power it's engines were
producing.

....under monitored conditions (ICAO?).

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"Dudley Henriques" wrote:

"Bob Fry" wrote in message
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"DH" == Dudley Henriques writes:
DH it's proper place

"*its* proper place" dammit. There are only two spellings:

its -- possesive
it's -- contraction of it is


I'll have to admit I wasn't an English major by a long shot, but isn't the
word "possessive" spelled with two s's and not one?

Actually, "possessive" is spelled with *four* s's. Count 'em.

;-)

rg

Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Such as?


Mach number.

Determined how?

Bob Fry wrote:
"DH" == Dudley Henriques writes:
DH it's proper place

"*its* proper place" dammit. There are only two spellings:

its -- possesive
it's -- contraction of it is


Pretty testy for a guy who can't himself spell as indicated above - twice.

Matt

Dudley Henriques wrote:
"Bob Fry" wrote in message
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"DH" == Dudley Henriques writes:
DH it's proper place

"*its* proper place" dammit. There are only two spellings:

its -- possesive
it's -- contraction of it is


I'll have to admit I wasn't an English major by a long shot, but isn't the
word "possessive" spelled with two s's and not one?

Yes, that is one of the two misspelling errors he made. :-)

Matt

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Determined how?


Machmeter.

"Ron Garret" wrote in message
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote:

"Bob Fry" wrote in message
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"DH" == Dudley Henriques writes:
DH it's proper place

"*its* proper place" dammit. There are only two spellings:

its -- possesive
it's -- contraction of it is


I'll have to admit I wasn't an English major by a long shot, but isn't
the
word "possessive" spelled with two s's and not one?

Actually, "possessive" is spelled with *four* s's. Count 'em.

;-)

rg

It's (contraction of it is ) the God's (possessive.......well God can have
anything he wants really) honest truth that there are 4, but you have to
admit, the checkmate was wonderful!!
Dudley Henriques

Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Determined how?


Machmeter.

And you know it was well calibrated?

An audible sonic boom has no calibration error and is, by definition,
100% accurate.