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You're not alone. Those accounts are plentiful over here as well; on this side the speedy one is generally the P-47. Can one imagine that truck 1+?
On another tack, the account of Yeager's feat is challenged by USAF tales of Flight Test involving the new F-86 in 1947. The day before Major Yeager's Mach odyssey, a two ship of the brand new swept wing Saber (Yeager's X-1 was definitely straight wing) were dive tested and produced at least three very loud bangs in the afternoon at ~14,000 feet. Yeager still bristles at discussion of this "challenge" to history. General Yeager still flies, but as of today, only his friend Bart's Aviat Husky. He lives closeby in a suburb of Sacramento, 0-17, Grass Valley is our airport. He still commands awe in a room, and doesn't hesitate to assume command there-in.
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