Originally Posted by
megan
Airbubba, could you please scan the relevant part of the book and email? Yeager was always the number one man, with Bob the backup, so interested in the proposition that Bob was to make the supersonic run, having no previous experience in the aircraft.
Here's the Bob Hoover story about how he was moved from primary pilot to chase pilot in the X-1 test project in this fair use excerpt from
Forever Flying (1996):
