http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/02/10/eerie-flight/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:33:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/02/10/eerie-flight/comment-page-1/#comment-1065855 KHarn Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:41:52 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7100#comment-1065855 Yeah, I heard something about that, TORANTO, Yeah, I heard something about that, TORANTO,

]]> http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/02/10/eerie-flight/comment-page-1/#comment-1065810 Toronto Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:58:32 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7100#comment-1065810 Didn't a Spitfire hit .92 or something? (In a dive, of course.) Didn’t a Spitfire hit .92 or something? (In a dive, of course.)

]]> http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/02/10/eerie-flight/comment-page-1/#comment-1065806 KHarn Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:51:45 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7100#comment-1065806 Goodlin later said that he had a "handshake deal" with Bell to fly faster than sound, but that military wanted Yeager "for the publisity". He even claimed that a roumer was started that Goodlin was holding out for more money to discredit him. Other fast-flyers included Jimmy Mattern in a P-80 (Mach .9) and two fighter pilots who in 1943, were said to have reached 725 mph by power-diving their P-47s. Like other early super-sonic flyers, they learned that their flaps became useless and had to use their trim tabs to slow down and pull out of their dives. Goodlin later said that he had a “handshake deal” with Bell to fly faster than sound, but that military wanted Yeager “for the publisity”. He even claimed that a roumer was started that Goodlin was holding out for more money to discredit him.
Other fast-flyers included Jimmy Mattern in a P-80 (Mach .9) and two fighter pilots who in 1943, were said to have reached 725 mph by power-diving their P-47s. Like other early super-sonic flyers, they learned that their flaps became useless and had to use their trim tabs to slow down and pull out of their dives.

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