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 ...

Chuck Yeager and flown the XS-1 through "the sound barrier," something many experts had believed might not be possible. His ...

From his early years as a fighter ace in World War II to the last time he broke the sound barrier in 2012 - at the age of 89 - Chuck Yeager became the most decorated US pilot ever. The airport ...

Air Force film of Chuck Yeager's October 14, 1947 X-1 flight that broke broke the sound barrier for the first round in human flight.

Chuck Yeager was an American brigadier general ... On October 14, 1947, he became the first pilot in history confirmed to have broken the sound barrier when he flew at 45,000 feet over Rogers ...

Slick Goodlin was a test pilot for Bell Laboratories and made numerous flights in the X-1 before it was transferred to the military for the sound barrier attempt. In 1947, Chuck Yeager was a ...

The Starfighter was piloted by Chuck Yeager, who in 1947 became the first pilot to break the first pilot to fly supersonic when he broke the sound barrier while flying a Bell X1. Yeager ...

(Chuck) Yeager, first pilot to crash the sound ... the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane series in which he broke the sound barrier the most interesting he has undertaken. He worked with the ...

Jackie Robinson made history on April 15, 1947, when he broke baseball’s color barrier to play for the Brooklyn ... On October 14, 1947, Charles "Chuck" Yeager was the first to break the sound barrier ...

Sound barrier-breaking fighter ace Chuck Yeager, who has died aged 97, epitomised a very different era of test pilots. Going faster than the speed of sound can create some exciting effects – and ...