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  2. Lockheed NF-104A - Wikipedia

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    The third NF-104A (USAF 56-0762) was delivered to the USAF on 1 November 1963, and was destroyed in a crash while being piloted by Chuck Yeager on 10 December 1963. This accident was depicted in the book Yeager: An Autobiography, and the book and film adaptation of The Right Stuff. The aircraft used for filming was a standard F-104G flying with ...

  3. Chuck Yeager - Wikipedia

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    The games include Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer, Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer 2.0, and Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. The game manuals feature quotes and anecdotes from Yeager and were well received by players. Missions feature several of Yeager's accomplishments and let players challenge his records.

  4. File:Yeager supersonic flight 1947.ogv - Wikipedia

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    Yeager_supersonic_flight_1947.ogv (Ogg multiplexed audio/video file, Theora/Vorbis, length 3 min 4 s, 366 × 274 pixels, 297 kbps overall, file size: 6.51 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons .

  5. Today in History: Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to ...

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    On October 14, 1947 the first individual flies faster than sound

  6. List of X-1 flights - Wikipedia

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    Chuck Yeager 46-063 NACA acceptance ? ? Number 4 engine tube burned out. XS-1 #47: October 3, 1947 Chuck Yeager 46-062 USAF 6 ? ? Check elevator, stabilizer and buffet. XS-1 #48: October 8, 1947 Chuck Yeager 46-062 USAF 7 0.925 ? Airspeed calibration flight. XS-1 #49: October 10, 1947 Chuck Yeager 46-062 USAF 8 0.997 ? Stability and control ...

  7. U.S. Fighter Pilot Chuck Yeager Passes Away At 97 - AOL

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    U.S. fighter pilot Charles "Chuck" Yeager has passed away at 97. Yeager served in World War Two and in 1947, became the first person to break the sound barrier. After retiring from the military in ...

  8. Bell X-1 - Wikipedia

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    The X-1 aircraft #46-062, nicknamed Glamorous Glennis and flown by Chuck Yeager, was the first piloted airplane to exceed the speed of sound in level flight and was the first of the X-planes, a series of American experimental rocket planes (and non-rocket planes) designed for testing new technologies.

  9. World War II plane dedicated to Chuck Yeager vanished ... - AOL

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    A replica of Gen. Chuck Yeager’s P-51 Mustang WWII-era fighter plane, marked with Nazi flags indicating the number of planes shot down by Yeager, waits in 1999 to be lifted by crane atop a 46 ...