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  2. chuckyeager.com · photosPhoto Gallery – The Chuck Yeager Foundation

    icons of aviation. About Chuck Yeager. Brigadier General Chuck Yeager was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot best known for exceeding the speed of sound in level flight.

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  4. www.chuckyeager.orgMay 18, 1953: The sound barrier was broken by a woman for the ...

    May 18, 2018 · Jackie Cochran (right) alongside her wingman and lifelong friend, Chuck Yeager, who accompanied her on her supersonic flight. Image: Smithsonian Mag. Female American pilot Jackie Cochran made history on this day when in 1953 she became the first woman to break the sound barrier.

  5. airandspace.si.edu · breaking-sound-barrier-75thBreaking the Sound Barrier: Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1

    Oct 13, 2022 · The Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis photographed while on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. (Smithsonian Institution) Seventy-five years ago, U.S. Air Force Captain Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager piloted the Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis to become the first airplane to fly faster than the speed of sound (Mach 1).

  6. chuckyeager.com · breaking-the-sound-barrierBreaking the Sound Barrier – The Chuck Yeager Foundation

    Experts warned that if Captain Chuck Yeager tried to break the sound barrier, he and his airplane would break up into tiny pieces just as many many had done before him. On October 14, 1947: Captain Chuck Yeager defied the experts when he flew faster than Mach 1, the speed of sound, and lived to tell the tale.

  7. www.space.com · 16709-breaking-the-sound-barrierBreaking the Sound Barrier | The Greatest Moments in Flight

    Sep 30, 2017 · A booming thunder roared across the clear skies of the Mojave Desert on Oct. 14, 1947, as U.S. Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager nudged an experimental rocket-powered plane faster than the speed of...

  8. en.wikipedia.org · wiki · Chuck_YeagerChuck Yeager - Wikipedia

    Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, in the X-1. Yeager remained in the U.S. Army Air Forces after the war, becoming a test pilot at Muroc Army Air Field (now Edwards Air Force Base), following graduation from Air Materiel Command Flight Performance School (Class 46C). [32]

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  10. www.smithsonianmag.com · smart-news · rememberingRemember Chuck Yeager by Exploring the Plane He Flew to Break ...

    Dec 8, 2020 · Charles “Chuck” Yeager, the first test pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound, died on Monday in Los Angeles, his wife Victoria announced on Twitter. He was 97.