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03-23-2010, 10:34 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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RIP: Robert White
Chuck Yeager gets most of the press for jet-era test pilots for being the first to break the sound barrier, but Robert M. White was the first to pass Mach 4, 5, and 6 during an 8 month span in 1961, and was later the first person to get astronaut wings while piloting a conventional (albeit rocket powered) aircraft.
Robert M. White dies at 85; pilot made history with a 1962 test flight into space - latimes.com
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03-23-2010, 11:26 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Back in Houston!
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We were just at Air and Space Smithsonian and his name was on the list of fastest persons in the world a couple of times, iirc.
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03-24-2010, 01:58 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego
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He definitely had the right stuff. RIP Gen. White.
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