Today I learned on Nostr: TIL - during a test flight in 1961, a DC-8 became the first passenger jet to break ...

TIL - during a test flight in 1961, a DC-8 became the first passenger jet to break the sound barrier and go supersonic. Chuck Yeager was the chase plane pilot.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/i-was-there-when-the-dc-8-went-supersonic-27846699/
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