CHUCK YEAGER'S CONVAIR XF-92A  EXPERIMENTAL  DELTA WING FIGHTER, HAND SIGNED!

Chuck Yeager logged over 10,000 hours in over 330 different types of aircraft including foreign and experimental rocket aircraft. In 1947, Yeager piloting the Bell X-1, broke Mach 1 at Muroc Air Base (now Edwards AFB). He continued to fly the X-1 as a research vehicle and checked out many other pilots in it. In 1953, he flew the Bell X-1A to break Mach 2 (Mach 2.435 or 1650 mph at 70,000 feet). He was the first American to test a captured Russian Mig 15. Among the many aircraft that he has flown are the F-86, F-100, X-1 (34 flights, X-3 (3 flights), X-4 (7 flights), F-80 accelerations tests, and chase for Jackie Cochran. During his years at Edwards AFB, Yeager served as Commandant of the Air Force Test Pilot School and the Aerospace Research Pilot School.

SCALE: 1:32
W/S: 12  INCHES
LENGTH: 18  INCHES

Item Number:    AA953956CY                                                                                               Price:    $229.95

Historical Note:    The XF-92 was first designated Convair model 7002 and was a flying mock-up built to test the delta-wing configuration, a phase in the development of the projected XF-92 jet and rocket-powered fighter. It made its first flight on 8 June 1948 from Edwards Air Force Base at the hands of E. D. "Sam" Shannon, the Convair Company test pilot. After a year of evaluation and on 9 June 1949, the Air Force purchased the test vehicle, giving it the designation XF-92A. In the hands of the Air Force and test pilots like General (then Capt.) Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager, "The father of supersonic flight", the XF-92 was proven useful in developing the needed technicalunderstand9ijng of this new delta-wing concept. So successful was this design that on 18 June 1950 the USAF issued a Request for proposals for a supersonic interceptor, which could find, intercept, and destroy any enemy bombers before they could reach their target and drop bombs, which presumably would be nuclear devices. No possibility of error or omission was therefore permissible. The forthcoming design was the F-102 Delta Dagger. In fact, after initial design difficulties were resolved by the applied use of the aria rule, the F-102A would be so successful that many aircraft in the future would be based upon its design. These would include the Convair F-106, B-58 and Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird as well as foreign types such as the Dassault Mirage series and the British / French Concord airliner, to name a few.