Comments on: 7 September 1956 https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/7-september-1956/ Important Dates in Aviation History Sat, 07 Sep 2024 12:49:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bryan Swopes https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/7-september-1956/#comment-25789 Wed, 08 Sep 2021 08:57:29 +0000 http://www.thisdayinaviation.com/?p=5897#comment-25789 In reply to Windell f Driskell.

Please see “This Day in Aviation” for 26 July 1958 at https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/26-july-1958/

]]> By: Windell f Driskell https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/7-september-1956/#comment-25788 Wed, 08 Sep 2021 01:02:40 +0000 http://www.thisdayinaviation.com/?p=5897#comment-25788 So sad that Ivan Kinchloe was killed in July 1958. Flying an F-104A Starfighter, he made a mental mistake when the plane ran into problems. The plane he was flying was modified with an upward ejection seat instead of the downward ejection. He inverted the Starfighter and ejected into the ground at low altitude. He was 30 years of age.

]]> By: Bryan Swopes https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/7-september-1956/#comment-23491 Sun, 08 Sep 2019 12:05:14 +0000 http://www.thisdayinaviation.com/?p=5897#comment-23491 In reply to Chuck Holte.

Thank you, Chuck.

]]> By: Chuck Holte https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/7-september-1956/#comment-23489 Sat, 07 Sep 2019 20:51:46 +0000 http://www.thisdayinaviation.com/?p=5897#comment-23489 Nice article. Thank you Sir.

]]> By: Altitude record set in Bell X-2 – Niagara Aerospace Museum https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/7-september-1956/#comment-22065 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:02:29 +0000 http://www.thisdayinaviation.com/?p=5897#comment-22065 […] Read more about this story at the excellent This Day in Aviation website. […]

]]> By: Sixty Years of the Bell X-2 « Bell X-2.com: Sightings https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/7-september-1956/#comment-19399 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 23:08:37 +0000 http://www.thisdayinaviation.com/?p=5897#comment-19399 […] September 7: Capt. Iven Kincheloe rockets to a record altitude of 126,200 feet. […]

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