Bell XS-1 test pilots. Left to right, alongside the Bell XS-1 supersonic aircraft are: Captain Charles (Chuck) E. Yeager (born 1923), Major Gus Lundqu
Bell XS-1 test pilots. Left to right, alongside the Bell XS-1 supersonic aircraft are: Captain Charles (Chuck) E. Yeager (born 1923), Major Gus Lundquist (1919-2008), and Captain James Thomas Fitzgerald (1920-1948). Prototype number 46-062, nicknamed 'Glamorous Glennis' after Yeager's wife, was flown by Yeager on 14 October 1947 to achieve the first manned supersonic flight. Lundquist directed the X-1 program and was one of the three test pilots. Fitzgerald was the second person to reach supersonic speeds after Yeager, doing so on 24 February 1948. He died in a landing accident in September 1948. Photographed in 1947 or 1948.
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