The remarkable flying career of Charles ‘Chuck’ Yeager - the first pilot to break the sound barrier and fly at supersonic ...

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 ...

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It should be noted, however, that Chuck Yeager, the famed test pilot who became the first man to break the sound barrier in 1947, loved the F-104 for its sheer power and speed. Before denigrating ...

On October 14, 1947, US Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 experimental plane at Mach 1 some 40,000 feet over the Mojave Desert, becoming the first human to travel faster than the speed ...

In 1947, Chuck Yeager was a Captain with the United States Air Force assigned as a test pilot to the X-1 program. On October 14, 1947, he became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.

Following a few more ground tests, it will fly over numerous cities around the country. NASA will ask people on the ground if ...

The sound barrier was broken for the first time in 1947, when Air Force pilot Capt. Chuck Yeager flew a rocket-propelled experimental aircraft across the Mojave Desert -- taking off from the ...

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 ...

Lisa DeFrees is Publisher of FLYING Media Group. She’s a student pilot and has been with FLYING for 27 years. She resides in Greenville, South Carolina with her dog, Chuck Yeager.