The Men of Iron Minute

by Chad Zueck | Director of Content Creation

Jet Fuel for the Masculine Soul

On October 14, 1947, a smaller aircraft called the Bell X-1 was attached to a B-29 bomber that took off from an airstrip in Southern California. At the time, many aeronautical engineers believed that the speed of sound, Mach 1, was an insurmountable barrier. However, the Bell X-1 proved them wrong. After being dropped from the B-29 bomber at 25,000 feet, the Bell X-1 ascended to 43,000 feet and accelerated to 500, 600, and 700 miles per hour. At 965 Mach, the control panels on the dashboard malfunctioned. At 995 Mach, the g-forces made Chuck Yeager’s vision blurry and his stomach unsettled. But then, at 761 miles per hour, the Bell X-1 broke the sound barrier. At supersonic speeds, the plane traveled faster than the sound waves it produced. Chuck Yeager then cut the engine at 1.07 Mach, making history.

This aeronautical endeavor was possible because years before, Wilbur and Orville Wright, two daring bike mechanics, had a Flyer and a dream. Wilbur and Orville took the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903—manhood like aviation compounds. As one-man mentors another, he takes his knowledge, experience, and faith and supplants them into another man. The mountain of manhood is too steep to climb alone, and the ‘solo’ kind of man cannot reach his potential stuck in the drag of his pride and ego.

Consider this jet fuel for your soul:

“You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.” Chuck Yeager

Dare greatly.

Live humbly.

Be a better man.

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