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10/14/2004: Great days in history:
Today is the 57th anniversary of the day that (then) U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager climbed into the cockpit of a Bell X-1 named "Glamorous Glennis" (after Yeager's beautiful wife), and became the first man to travel faster than the speed of sound.
Here she is (the plane, not the woman) as she appears today (the orange plane at the top of the picture), at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum:
Len on 10.14.04 @ 10:02 AM CST
