Description: The Century of Flight.. One of America's most accomplished test pilots Tex Johnston flew the first U.S. jet and, in a career spanning five decades, helped create the jet age at such pioneering aerospace companies as Bell Aircraft and Boeing Beginning at age nineteen with an aerobatic circus, Tex worked for the military before World War lI as a ferry pilot. In 1943, as a test pilot at Bell Aircraft, he conducted developmental testing of the first U.S. jet fighter, the XP-59A, and was involved with the evolution of the rocket-powered X-1, later thrust through the sound barrier by military pilot Chuck Yeager. At Boeing, Tex pioneered breakthrough airplanes including the XB-47, the XB-52 bomber-stillin service after almost forty years- and the 707 series of jets, which revolutionized civilian air transport
Price: 32.99 USD
Location: Locust Grove, Oklahoma
End Time: 2024-11-19T11:47:26.000Z
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Aircraft Type: Jet
