Who Likes Aircraft ?

[snakeyes]

 

[Photon440]

per hour sorry

Really, that can't be right. I don't think even the astronauts ever got past 40,000 kilometers per hour, let alone over a million. Was there a misplaced comma or decimal point?

 

[snakeyes]

I will re check and get back to you world speed record 18 May,1953 1,050.18 kilometers per hour -652.552 miles per hour sorry about that had to go back and recheck it out

 

[super-bee_ski]

Okay...technically Rogers is an 'endorheic desert salt pan', but it used to be a lake.

aw c'mon
I LIVE here....
I've been on Edwards AFB since 1994

NOT SALT like Bonneville
Dirt.......

YES: in the rainy season sometimes Brine Shrimp emerge from hibernation....

 

[snakeyes]

Chuck Yeager blast through sound barrier Edwards Air Force Base 1947

 

[snakeyes]

found this article found it to be interesting .

http://www.mach-buster.co.uk/yeager-during-wwii/4532757648

 

[snakeyes]

another interesting article that I wasn't aware of

http://company.airbus.com/company/heritage/female-pioneers/Jacqueline-Auriol.html

 

[snakeyes]

Jackie Cochran in her ATA uniform. She joined the Air Force when the US wasn`t in war with Nazi- Germany so she joined the volunteer unit of the RAF she was founder and director of the WASPS program in WWll

 

[super-bee_ski]

 

[super-bee_ski]

FOR snakeyes:

 

[super-bee_ski]

For Photon440:

 

[snakeyes]

hope that both are not transgender thanks ski having a off day

 

[snakeyes]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Dry_Lake

 

[snakeyes]

ski what ever became of Connie Engelhttps://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/connie-engel/

 

[snakeyes]

Maj. Rossi is she still around

 

[super-bee_ski]

Sadly Major Marie Theresa (?) Rossi died in a helicopter crash in desert Storm, 1991 (?)



Connie was in the "First Class" for females
Now the classes are co-ed.

 

[oldbee]

For the Dallas Cowboy fans I have personal chopper of Jerry Jones- picture from Akron-Canton airport. It's NFL hall of fame week!!

 

[super-bee_ski]

Okay, here is Rossi's bio:

-During Desert Storm the first woman pilot gave her life while flying in a combat zone. Major Marie T. Rossi died at age 32 on March 1, 1991, when the Chinook helicopter she was piloting crashed near her base in northern Saudia Arabia. The unit she commanded was among the very first American units to cross into enemy held territory flying fuel and ammunition to the rapidly advancing 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions. Major Rossi is buried in Arlington Cemetery where her simple epitaph there reads "First Female Combat Commander To Fly into Battle."

I think her Husband was also a Helicopter pilot also
He must be retired now
Sadly, another casualty of Desert Storm

 

[oldbee]

AND for ghost67 the Army parachute team jump plane(yellow stripe)

 

[super-bee_ski]

Jammie Jamesson:
FIRST female F-22 Combat pilot