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Yeager was born February 13, 1923, in Myra, West Virginia, to farming parents Albert Hal Yeager (1896–1963) and Susie Mae Yeager (née Sizemore; 1898–1987). When he was five years old, his family moved to Hamlin, West Virginia.Yeager had two brothers, Roy and Hal Jr., and two sisters, Doris Ann (accidentally killed at age one by four-year-old Roy playing with a firearm) and Pansy Lee.
Apr 2, 2014 · Charles Elwood Yeager was born on February 13, 1923, in Myra, West Virginia, and primarily grew up in the town of Hamlin. In September 1941, shortly after graduating from high school, he enlisted ...
Dec 7, 2020 · US Air Force officer and test pilot Chuck Yeager, known as “the fastest man alive,” has died at the age of 97. Yeager broke the sound barrier when he tested the X-1 in October 1947, although ...
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. Learn more about his life and career.
Dec 8, 2020 · Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager, 1923 – 2020. 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.
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. For Wolfe, Yeager stood at the apex of “the ziggurat pyramid of ...
Dec 7, 2020 · Published Dec. 7, 2020 Updated Dec. 9, 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 ...
Dec 8, 2020 · US test pilot Chuck Yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier, has died aged 97, his wife says. In a tweet, Victoria Yeager wrote: "It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life ...
Top Image: Chuck Yeager and his ground crew in front of “Glamorous Glen III”. Courtesy chuckyeager.com. Charles Elwood “Chuck” Yeager was born on February 13, 1923, and spent most of his childhood in the small town of Hamlin, West Virginia.
Dec 8, 2020 · US test pilot Chuck Yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier, has died aged 97, his wife says.
