The Women, concluded - 1953 Jackie Cochran with Yeager.jpg (1/1)

[Mitchell Holman[_9_]]

[john szalay]

Mitchell Holman > wrote in
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> Jackie Cochran with Yeager

Encouraged by then-Major Chuck Yeager, with whom Cochran shared a lifelong
friendship, on May 18, 1953, at Rogers Dry Lake, California, Cochran flew a
Canadair F-86 Sabre jet borrowed from the Royal Canadian Air Force at an
average speed of 652.337 mph. During the course of this run the Sabre went
supersonic, and Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier.

[Mitchell Holman[_9_]]

john Szalay <john.szalayatatt.net> wrote in
31:

> Mitchell Holman > wrote in
> :
>
>> Jackie Cochran with Yeager
>
> Encouraged by then-Major Chuck Yeager, with whom Cochran shared a
> lifelong friendship, on May 18, 1953, at Rogers Dry Lake, California,
> Cochran flew a Canadair F-86 Sabre jet borrowed from the Royal
> Canadian Air Force at an average speed of 652.337 mph. During the
> course of this run the Sabre went supersonic, and Cochran became the
> first woman to break the sound barrier.
>


Cochran lead the WASP program that I posted
so many pictures of.

[Mitchell Holman[_9_]]

DAN > wrote in news:iorcfcpu05ggj3asak07gibfh0udcro01h@
4ax.com:

> And a bunch of graduates of the IAF flight school 2011.
> Identities are not public while they serve.


The IAF has a preference for redheads, it seems.......;)

[Mitchell Holman[_9_]]

DAN > wrote in
:

> Rina Levinson was a pilot qualified on planes and gliders, and was
> drafted into the IAF where she served as Sergeant.
>
> She also piloted a C-47 for the paratroops assault on Mitla pass in
> 1956.
>
> After the war, she operated a private air taxi service, and
> participated in international glider competitions.
>
>


Thanks, I will include these in my next upload
of this series.