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May 20, 2024 · Chuck Yeager, American test pilot and U.S. Air Force officer who was the first man to exceed the speed of sound in flight. He also established a world speed record of 1,650 miles (2,660 km) per hour. Yeager retired from the air force with the rank of brigadier general in 1975.
General Chuck Yeager is one of the greatest aviators that ever lived. For millions of people around the world, General Chuck Yeager is the man who best epitomizes the unique blend of qualities that writer Tom Wolfe captured in the title of his 1979 best seller, The Right Stuff.
Dec 8, 2020 · A legend has passed. The greatest pilot of the Greatest Generation has passed. Seventy-nine years to the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, famed test pilot, World War II ace, and the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound, Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager, died at the age of 97.
Dec 7, 2020 · Chuck Yeager, the most famous test pilot of his generation, who was the first to break the sound barrier and, thanks to Tom Wolfe, came to personify the death-defying aviator who possessed the...
Dec 8, 2020 · 7 December 2020. Watch Chuck Yeager's historic flight in 1947. US test pilot Chuck Yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier, has died aged 97, his wife says. In a tweet,...
Dec 8, 2020 · By Tim Stelloh and The Associated Press. Chuck Yeager, a former U.S. Air Force officer who became the first pilot to break the speed of sound, died Monday. He was 97. NASA Administrator Jim ...
Dec 8, 2020 · Reuters. Chuck Yeager - who was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1973 - kept flying in his later years. It was a feat of considerable courage, as nobody was certain at the...
