PORT ANGELES — Six Civil Air Patrol cadets fulfilled a longtime wish last week when they stood next to the first pilot to break the sound barrier.
The team from the Port Angeles Composite Squadron, plus their young mascot and their education officer, met Gen. Chuck Yeager at Kitty Hawk, N.C., while taking part in the centennial celebration of the Wright Brothers’ first flight.
“Their wish was fulfilled in meeting Chuck Yeager,” said Jay Jacobsen, the team’s education officer.
Yeager was among the few people at the show who had actually met one of the Wright brothers.
He said he encountered Orville Wright in 1945 at an air show where Orville saw his first jet.
“To be a part of the Wright brothers’ 100th anniversary, it just makes you feel kind of clamped up inside,” Yeager said.
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The rest of the story appears in Monday’s Peninsula Daily News.