1961 52 facts

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Lucy Ann Johnson, a woman who disappeared in British Columbia in 1961, only to be found alive and well living a new life in the Yukon nearly 52 years later.

On August 21, 1961, a Douglas DC-8 was accompanied to an altitude of 52,000 feet by Chuck Yeager in a chase plane afrom where the DC-8 then broke the sound barrier at Mach 1.012 making it the first civilian aircraft and first jet airliner to go supersonic.

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