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Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager ( / ˈjeɪɡər / YAY-gər, February 13, 1923 – December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight. Yeager was raised in Hamlin, West Virginia.
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- Brigadier general (promoted 1969)
- 1941–1947 (Army Air Forces), 1947–1975 (Air Force)
Apr 2, 2014 · A fighter pilot ace during World War II, Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, when he flew the Bell X-1 rocket 700 mph in level flight in October 1947. Yeager later ...
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 ...
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Apr 2, 2024 · Chuck Yeager (born February 13, 1923, Myra, West Virginia, U.S.—died December 7, 2020, Los Angeles, California) was an American test pilot and U.S. Air Force officer who was the first man to exceed the speed of sound in flight. Yeager enlisted in the U.S. Army in September 1941, shortly after graduating from high school, and was assigned to ...
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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.
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Dec 8, 2020 · 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 time whether ...
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 ...
