{"id":7843,"date":"2018-12-07T07:39:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T15:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7843"},"modified":"2018-12-07T09:02:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:02:40","slug":"a-360o-view-from-inside-chuck-yeagers-cockpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/07\/a-360o-view-from-inside-chuck-yeagers-cockpit\/","title":{"rendered":"A 360\u00ba view from inside Chuck Yeager&#8217;s cockpit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/360player.io\/static\/dist\/scripts\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>History? Check.<br \/>\nPhotography? Check.<br \/>\nAerospace? Check.<\/p>\n<p>I am <em>there<\/em> for this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/360player.io\/p\/Akxo2h\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" data-token=\"Akxo2h\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nSmithsonian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airspacemag.com\/articles\/chuck-yeagers-cockpit-180964968\/\">notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The distinct H-shaped yoke determined both roll and pitch. Airspeed was controlled by the number of rocket chambers\u2014up to four\u2014fired by the silver thumb-switch to the left of the yoke; there was no throttle.<\/li>\n<li>The Mach indicator above goes to Mach 1.5; it was most likely installed after Yeager\u2019s first transonic flight. It\u2019s flanked by a conventional altimeter and airspeed indicator. The fastest Glamorous Glennis ever flew was Mach 1.45.<\/li>\n<li>Yeager signed his name in the cockpit of Glamorous Glennis on many occasions over the decades. (He piloted 33 of the aircraft\u2019s 78 career test flights, including its last, on May 12, 1950.) Can you find all his signatures?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[Via Bryan O\u2019Neil Hughes]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History? Check. Photography? Check. Aerospace? Check. I am there for this: Smithsonian notes: The distinct H-shaped yoke determined both roll and pitch. Airspeed was controlled by the number of rocket chambers\u2014up to four\u2014fired by the silver thumb-switch to the left of the yoke; there was no throttle. The Mach indicator above goes to Mach 1.5; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7843"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7853,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions\/7853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}