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First woman, Jackie Cochran, breaks sound barrier.....
First woman, Jackie Cochran, breaks sound barrier.....
Item # 714329
May 19, 1953
THE DETROIT NEWS, May 19, 1953
* Jacqueline Cochran breaks the sound barrier
* 1st ever woman to do so - jet airplane
The front page has a one column heading: "Sonic Barrier Bows 1st Time to a Woman" Photo of Cochran is on page 21. (see images)
Complete with 52 pages, light toning and a little wear a the margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally good.
wikipedia notes: Encouraged by then-Major Chuck Yeager, with whom Cochran shared a lifelong friendship, on May 18, 1953, at Rogers Dry Lake, California, Cochran flew a Canadair F-86 Sabre jet borrowed from the Royal Canadian Air Force at an average speed of 652.337 mph. During the course of this run the Sabre went supersonic, and Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier.
Category: The 20th Century
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