Chuck Yeager 1950
Summary
Col. Charles S. Yeager, Commandant of the USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School at the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, Calif., poses with a model of the North American X-15 high speed, high-altitude research aircraft. He holds a photograph of the Bell X-1 aircraft in which he became the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound on Oct. 14, 1947.
中文(臺灣):查克·葉格
查克·葉格是美國空軍著名的空戰英雄,也是世界上第一個正式突破音障的人類。圖中所見是葉格在1950年代,擔任太空飛行員訓練學校指揮官時的留影,他手中拿的是X-15實驗機的模型,而一旁圖片中的則是X-1。
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1959
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