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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.
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]
Popular for her YouTube comedy videos under the pseudonym "Boxxy". Fights between her supporters and her detractors lead to an "online war". Stuart Webster United States OverSimplified: A Youtuber that explains historical events in an oversimplified way with animation and comedy. Jesse Wellens and Jeana Smith: United States
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship performed another spectacular launch during Tuesday’s test flight, but the company opted at the last minute not to try for its second-ever catch of the Super Heavy ...
He is also the only test captain to play in excess of 100 test matches. (109 – 108 as captain for South Africa, and 1 for ICC). [89] [90] Smith holds the world record of the highest number of wins in test matches as a captain with 53 wins. Smith holds the most centuries (15) by a captain in test match wins. He also holds the world record of a ...
State flag of California Location of California on the U.S. map. This is a list of notable people from the U.S. state of California. It includes people who were born/raised in, lived in, or spent portions of their lives in California, or for whom California is a significant part of their identity.
Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, died Tuesday in Houston. NASA confirmed Cunningham’s death in a statement ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The captain of a dive boat that caught fire and sank off the California coast in 2019, killing 34 people in one of the state's deadliest maritime disasters, was sentenced on ...