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General Frank Pete Everest was a record-sitting U.S. Air Force test pilot.

As a fighter pilot in World War II, he flew over 150 combat missions.

He then went on to lead the Air Force flight test program,

flying with other legendary pilots like Chuck Yeager and George Welch.

From 1950 to 1956, he flew an average of eight newly designed aircraft a month, setting records like taking

the Bell X-1 to an altitude of 73,000 feet, and the X-2 to a speed of over 1,900 miles per hour,

making him the fastest man alive. We interviewed Pete Everest, and he told us great stories of those pioneering days of experimental

aircraft and daring test pilots.

When I was a youngster, I used to watch airplanes over my home in West Virginia flying.

And one of the characters that used to do a lot of flying was Skyline Scotty.

And I lay in my backyard and watched him do acrobatics and said,

that's what I want to do with my life is to fly.

So I did all my education towards that goal and then I was attending

West Virginia University and when the war broke out and I had gotten my private pilot license

through the CPT program and so I entered the Air Force and was trained as an aviation cadet graduated,

got my wings and my commission in 1942 and became a fighter pop. And I checked out in P-40s in Baltimore,

and then got our squadrons together,

and was sent over to Africa to fight to Rommel

on his ground forces.

And I flew a hundred missions there in Africa and Italy,

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