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Dec 8, 2020 · The Air Force officer who was the first pilot to fly at supersonic speed, Chuck Yeager, has died at the age of 97.
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Dec 9, 2020 · FILE - In this Sept. 4, 1985, file photo, Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier in 1947, poses at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in front of the rocket-powered Bell X-IE plane that he flew. Yeager died Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, at age 97. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)
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Dec 9, 2020 · Breaking the Sound Barrier: An Aviation Turning Point 19 photos. On Oct. 14, 1947, Yeager, then a 24-year-old captain, pushed an orange, bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane past 660 mph to...
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Dec 8, 2020 · 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 Bridenstine called his death "a tremendous...
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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,...
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Dec 8, 2020 · The first man to break the sound barrier, Chuck Yeager died on Monday in California at the age of 97. John Yang has the story.
Dec 9, 2020 · Chuck Yeager, the steely test pilot immortalized in The Right Stuff who took aviation to the doorstep of space by becoming the first person to break the sound barrier, died Monday at the age of...
