October 14, 1947
The Impossible Flight
Up in the high terrain of the Mojave Desert in California, is where Muroc Field is located. The informed reader should not be worried that they have never heard the name of this Air Force base before, as it is a well-preserved secret. It has, however, become necessary to inform the public of this national secret, as it has been made known to this newspaper that an unrivalled feat was performed there on October 14, only a few days ago.
We have received information from an anonymous, but highly reliable source, through a personal meeting that the impossible flight of Mach 1 has been achieved. The team at Muroc Field has been working on this task for several years, and with the amazing flight skills of the pilot,
Chuck Yeager, the bullet-shaped X-1 plane broke the supersonic sound barrier high above the Mojave Desert. Yeager a young, but highly decorated American Air Force pilot from Hamlin, West Virginia have, thereby, set the record to be the first human being to fly faster than the speed of sound.
The team at Muroc Field can be rightly proud of the result of their hard work and America can the proud to be the first country to achieve such an accomplishment, indeed!
Nice go at '50s journalism with a clear patriotic tone to it!
ReplyDeleteI like the genre of the article. It's something that you want to read and it's interesting.
ReplyDeleteBut seeing as they are trying to come through with important information shouldn't there be a big and important headline as well? Just a thought to capture the audience better. :)