1951/01/01-A new Dictator Gains control of French Guiana, he claims to be the reincarnation of Napolion and declares that he shall build an empire not by conquering other countries but by concoring the heavens. He funnels all of the nations funds into CORE aerospace A selection of American and German WW2 parts are locked in a warehouse with the coutries top engineers. "you may not leave until you have created a plane that breakes the sound barrier"
1951/02/18-First test if the X1, powered by 2 Jet engines, the plane breakes the sound barrier on the testflight and hits 15Km altitude, Sergei tries higher but nearly passes out. Unfortunately due to a peperwork mixup mission control was only able to credit this as a first flight
1951/02/19-Having remembered to file the appropriate paperwork, the X1 flys again, this time completing the Crewed supersonic and Xplanes low contracts, 4 days behind a competing spaceagency at brownsville mabey we need to feed the engineers more Pizza