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Experimental Flight Research
Fifty years ago this month, the Bell X-1 aircraft flew it's first glide test over Muroc, California. The following year, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the X-1. In this hour of Science Friday, we'll look back at Yeager's feat, the half-century of flight research that followed, and the aircraft of the future.
Guests:
Chuck Yeager
Retired Brigadier General
United States Air Force
Cedar Ridge, California
J.D. "Dill" Hunley
Historian
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Edwards, California
Rogers Smith
Chief Pilot
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Edwards, California
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