In a message dated 10/12/01 5:34:25 PM, ferness261@voyager.net writes:
<< Yeager? TI? Was that the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter? Didn't it have those razor-thin titanium wings, or am I remembering that wrong? Did he set a speed record in one of those? >>
Yeager bailed out of a rocket assisted F-104. The incident is in "The Right
Stuff." The 104s wings were razor thin but not made out of titanium. But the
A-12/SR-71 project at the same time and the same Skunk Works had a lot of
titanium.
Phil Brown