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Posted on 10-14-2007 at 08:15am
Filed Under (History, Events & Observances) by Katherine Coble on 10-14-2007

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Chuck Yeager officially broke the sound barrier in the X-1 Aircraft by Bell Aircraft.

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Dr. Moondog on 14 October, 2007 at 11:26 am #

10 years ago I bought two First Day Covers of the 50th Anniversary of Supersonic Flight stamp at the post office. After some searching, I found General Yeager’s address (the was no chuckyeager.com website in 1997) and mailed both of them to him with a return postage paid envelope and a letter requesting that he autograph one and keep the other for himself (in the unlikely event he didn’t have one). Two weeks later the return envelope arrived with a form letter telling me where I could buy autographed copies of the first day cover for $100.00. Neither of the first day covers I sent was in the return envelope. I’m sure General Yeager never saw my letter, and I do not blame him. But it still bugs me.