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Re: Robert M. Edholm - test pilot McDonnell - sound barrier?
Being Chief Test Pilot with McDonnell, Edholm made the first flight in the XF-88 on 20 Oct 1948
The XF-88 is known to have exceeded Mach 1 in a dive (I have no date for that), but we can be
pretty certain that the first pilot who did that was Edholm.
While he was not the first one to fly past the "barrier", he certainly was among the first to do so.
Cheers
Stig
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