Once we were Men
AEROSPACE
- In Days Of Old, Test Pilots Were Bold
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/In_Days_Of_Old_Test_Pilots_Were_Bold.html
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 22, 2006 - Sixty years ago NASA's predecessor, the
National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, or NACA, oversaw America's technical
rise to aeronautical pre-eminence in the world. These were the heady days of
early supersonic flight, when bold test pilots mounted new, untrustworthy jet
and rocket-powered steeds to challenge the mysterious frontier of flight faster
than the speed of sound.