With his experimental aircraft, Chuck Yeager paved the way for the faster airplanes and supersonic military flights that have become routine. (Handout) After test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first ...

CELEBRATED test pilot Chuck Yeager had a long and eventful life – most notably becoming the first pilot to break the sound barrier. And he did it in a plane named after his first wife – “Glamorous ...

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (WHTM) — On Oct. 14, 1947, Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager climbed into a Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first human being to break the sound barrier in level flight.

Chuck Yeager, the U.S. Air Force Pilot who became the first person to break the sound barrier, died Monday (Dec. 7) at the age of 97. Yeager's wife, Victoria, shared the news on Twitter, writing: "It ...

Americans, including Vice President Mike Pence, today remembered a West Virginia legend whose many legendary accomplishments can only be summed up with one phrase, “The Right Stuff.” “The life of ...

Yeager Personified the Daring, Heroic Image of Early Test Pilots, Changed Aviation. Aviation legend Chuck Yeager has died at 97. Yeager is universally acknowledged as establishing the image of the jet ...

Chuck Yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier and a subject of the book and film “The Right Stuff,” has died. He was 97. Yeager’s wife, Victoria Yeager, announced his death on Twitter ...

After test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first man to break the sound barrier, he confessed to the highly un-Yeager-like emotion of fear. “I was scared,” he wrote in a memoir, “knowing that many of my ...

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Chuck Yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier and a subject of the book and film “The Right Stuff,” has died. He was 97. Yeager’s wife, Victoria Yeager, announced his death on Twitter ...