TC travels, 2014 TR, Pg 904, 2015 TR pg 964
Table of Contents Our 2009 travels started here on March 1, 2009 The first pictures appeared at page 15. We couldn't get our data card to work with our new computer. New Orleans and the Bayou c...
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We headed west on the South Side Expressway. Downtown Charleston is on the far right.
We crossed this ... the South Side Bridge earlier.
Chuck Yeager flew under this bridge as he arrived in Charleston from Huntington, WV in October 1947 a week or so after he became the first man to fly an airplane faster than the speed of sound on October 16, 1947.
A year later in October of 1948 Yeager flew under this bridge again at 500 mph ... shaking up some boaters that he didn't realize were there. He had just left what would later become Charkeston's Yeager Airport... he'd flown the 15 minutes to Charleston from Wright Patterson AFB in Columbus, Ohio to visit his family in Hamlin WV.
The USAF raised all kinds of he**, the stories had been on the radio in real time and in the newpapers so we know what happened... history has been "corrected" several times with pressure from the AF... even The Army AF became the USAF in 1947... image was everything. Chuck has shown a sly grin as he tells different versions.
The people that were there and listening to the actual flight in 1947 report that Yeager rolled his figher as he went under the bridge blowing out the windows in banks and offices.
No one minded.. he was our hero! He is still our hero!
Miss Blair was teaching my second grade class when we listened to his flight over our school and the live radio reports in Oct 1947... she was also Yeagers second grade teacher at Hamlin. She was so excited that she had a tear in her eye.
We crossed this ... the South Side Bridge earlier.
Chuck Yeager flew under this bridge as he arrived in Charleston from Huntington, WV in October 1947 a week or so after he became the first man to fly an airplane faster than the speed of sound on October 16, 1947.
A year later in October of 1948 Yeager flew under this bridge again at 500 mph ... shaking up some boaters that he didn't realize were there. He had just left what would later become Charkeston's Yeager Airport... he'd flown the 15 minutes to Charleston from Wright Patterson AFB in Columbus, Ohio to visit his family in Hamlin WV.
The USAF raised all kinds of he**, the stories had been on the radio in real time and in the newpapers so we know what happened... history has been "corrected" several times with pressure from the AF... even The Army AF became the USAF in 1947... image was everything. Chuck has shown a sly grin as he tells different versions.
The people that were there and listening to the actual flight in 1947 report that Yeager rolled his figher as he went under the bridge blowing out the windows in banks and offices.
No one minded.. he was our hero! He is still our hero!
Miss Blair was teaching my second grade class when we listened to his flight over our school and the live radio reports in Oct 1947... she was also Yeagers second grade teacher at Hamlin. She was so excited that she had a tear in her eye.
