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American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

With each test run, pilot Chuck Yeager is getting closer to taking the top secret Bell X-1 plane past the speed of sound. But just before a critical flight, an accident on the ground jeopardizes his chances of success.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American innovations, add free on Amazon music.
0:05.8	Download the app today.
0:16.6	It's September 1947 at the Mojave Desert Dive Bar known as Poncho's Fly-In.
0:23.3	For pilots at the nearby Nurek Airfield, the fly-in isn't just the best saloon for miles
0:29.4	around, it's the only one.
0:31.7	The regulars whoop their halos as Chuck Yeager centers in with his friend and engineer, Jack
0:36.9	Ridley.
0:37.9	Fresh from another successful test run of Murak's fastest plane, the X1.
0:43.8	For Yeager and anyone else working on top secret often life-risk test flights, this
0:49.0	is the place to blow off some steam and build their nerve back up.
0:53.1	And they couldn't do it without the fly's legendary owner and bartender, Miz Poncho Barnes.
1:00.0	She pours a couple of glasses of scotch for Yeager and Ridley, as they belly up to the
1:04.2	bar.
1:05.2	Yeager, once you cross that sound barrier, you better find a way to take me for a spin at
1:09.2	Mach 1.
1:10.2	I want to feel the rumble of those rockets.
1:12.2	Must be like riding a comet.
1:14.2	Heh, Poncho, I'd feel a hell of a lot better up there if you were with me.
1:18.4	Ridley laughs.
1:19.6	I wouldn't.
1:20.6	I've got my hands full with Yeager on that plane.
1:23.1	I don't need another outlaw up there with him.
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