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Arthur Warren "Kit" Murray (December 26, 1918 – July 25, 2011) [1] was a United States test pilot who flew test flights on the Bell X-1 and the Bell X-5 aircraft. He was the first pilot to see the curvature of the Earth and set an unofficial altitude record of more than 90,000 feet at over twice the speed of sound.
Smit played his first Springbok game in 2000 at the age of 22, when South Africa beat Canada 51–18 at Basil Kenyon Stadium in East London.Between October 2003 and June 2007, Smit played in a record 46 consecutive Test matches for South Africa, though it was not until 2004, when he was made captain of the squad by then new coach Jake White, that he became a regular member of the starting XV.
Léon Lemartin, the world's first professional test pilot, [1] under contract to Louis Blériot in c. 1910 Jimmy Doolittle in 1928 with his Curtiss R3C-2, around the time he pioneered blind flying Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1, first test pilot to break the sound barrier at Mach 1 in 1947 Neil Armstrong and the North American X-15 after a research test flight in 1960
Hoda Kotb is looking back on her time Today—yet, there are things she will—and—won’t miss ahead of her departure from the show. During an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers on ...
Captain Katrina Mumaw (born c. 1983 in Lancaster, California), is a United States Air Force Academy graduate and accomplished pilot who holds several records in aviation. [1] On July 12, 1994, at the age of eleven, [2] Mumaw became the youngest person to pilot a Russian MIG-29 fighter jet [3] and also the youngest to break the sound barrier. [2]
Jerry Brown – governor of California (1975–83; 2011–19) and mayor of Oakland; Pat Brown – governor of California (1959–1967) Dave Brubeck – jazz pianist and composer; Tedy Bruschi – football player; Lindsey Buckingham – musician (Fleetwood Mac) Jeff Buckley – singer-songwriter and guitarist; Bill Buckner – baseball player
He hit it big on MTV's "Total Request Live" in 1998, hosted his own late-night show "Last Call with Carson Daly" in 2002, then transitioned to the morning show "Today" in 2013.
Today (also called The Today Show) is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC.The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and after 72 years of broadcasting it is fifth on the list of longest-running United States television serie