In the 1950s, American pilots were testing the limits of aviation. Before astronauts launched into space as “passengers” on rocket ships, pilots were breaking records for flight speed and altitude nearly every week on jet planes—on jets that had no autopilot mode.
These were the guys descried in Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff. These weren’t the N.A.S.A. as…
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