[SEL] Sabre Jets, etc.

[John Culp]

Thanks, Charlie!

Some people may fuss about being "off topic," but I think it's awesome 
to be able to talk to someone that was THERE when fascinating things 
like that were happening! I've read about guys like Chuck Yeager, Bob 
Hoover, and George Welch for most of my life. Never talked to anybody 
that knew 'em before. And some of y'all might want to find out a bit 
more about that story about Frank Smith (thanks, Charlie!) punching out 
at over Mach 1. It was the first time anybody did that and lived to 
talk about it, and it was a pretty close thing for him.

I run into people with terrific experience in various fields on boards 
where we're supposed to be talking about guitars, or Hammond organs, 
blues music, or collecting old vacuum tubes. It's amazing what you can 
learn when everybody doesn't stay on topic all the time.

John Culp
Bristol, Tennessee, USA