Ridley was the guy who always had a stick of gum for Yeager before his flights.
I saw an interview of Bob Hoover in which he said there was not another pilot in the world who could have recovered the X-1a when it began to tumble.
He also said there was not another pilot who could have waxed Yeager in a dogfight tho Chuck said that Ridley had once beat him. Ridley was the guy who always had a stick of gum for Yeager before his flights.
Ridley was the guy who always had a stick of gum for Yeager before his flights.