“Hey Ridley, you got any Beemans?” On a sunny autumn morning in the middle of the California desert, a pair of sonic booms echoed loudly across the blue sky signaling the greatest achievement in aviation as the thrust of the jet age propelled America toward the space age. On 14 October 1947, then-Capt. Charles “Chuck” […]
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