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[i]There are some details the best test-pilots never give up. Like the day Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound. It was Cardenas who flew the B-29 launch plane that carried Yeager's X-1 aloft. Afterward, Yeager did a victory roll. And Cardenas? Legend has it, he did his own victory roll in that big old B-29 – something strictly forbidden. Did he? "I swore the whole crew to secrecy," he says, a twinkle in those old eyes. "Or I would've been grounded!"[/i]
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