Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager is one of the most consequential public figures in aviation history. He was the first one to break ...

Chuck Yeager, the legendary pilot and retired Air Force brigadier general who broke the sound barrier in 1947, has died By Jared Keller Updated on Dec 8, 2020 Chuck Yeager, the legendary pilot and ...

Combat aviation aces are literally a dying breed. Colonel Perry Dahl passed away at his home in Tampa, Florida, on December 2 ...

The aircraft was an ode to Chuck Yeager, a long-time Grass Valley resident and World War II fighter pilot known for being the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound in 1947.

Chuck Yeager Flies the MiG-15 A segment from a U.S. Air Force film follows a single flight by then-Major Charles Chuck Yeager. Before Yeager and Air Force test pilots Albert Boyd and H.E. Tom ...

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 ...

On October 14, 1947, at approximately 10:00 a.m., a four-engine Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber, piloted by Major ...

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The time period is the late 1940s/early 1950s. In order, the clips show: Test pilot Chuck Yeager checking the vehicles controls and the control surfaces moving; ground firing of the X-1 rocket ...

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It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be in it. Thrilling ...