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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 ...
Pilot again found low-frequency elevator buzz at mach 0.93. Turbopump overspeeding caused powered flight abort. X-1A #7: November 21, 1953 Chuck Yeager 48-1384 USAF 1 1.15 ? Familiarization flight. X-1A #8: December 2, 1953 Chuck Yeager 48-1384 USAF 2 1.5 ? - X-1A #9: December 8, 1953 Chuck Yeager 48-1384 USAF 3 1.9 18,300 First high-mach flight.
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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.
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 ...
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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 ...
Charles "Chuck" Yeager Bell X-1 November 6, 1947 181,437 kg (400,000 lb) USA Hughes Aircraft Co H-4 Hercules: 1948 1,540 km/h (957 mph) USA Charles Yeager Bell X-1 March 26, 1948 19,507 m (64,000 ft) USA Charles Yeager Bell X-1 May 26, 1948 2,740 kgf thrust (6,041 lbf thrust) USSR Klimov Klimov VK-1: 1949 37,165 km (23,093 miles) USA James ...