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Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager (/ ˈjeɪɡər / YAY-gər, February 13, 1923 – December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight. Yeager was raised in Hamlin, West Virginia.
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 ...
The World War II fighter pilot ace, who became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound in 1947, has died. Chuck Yeager, 1st to break sound barrier, dies at 97 Skip to main content
Jeana Lee Yeager (born May 18, 1952) is an American aviator. She co-piloted, along with Dick Rutan, the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in the Rutan Voyager aircraft from December 14 to 23, 1986. [3] The flight took 9 days, 3 minutes, and 44 seconds and covered 24,986 miles (40,211 km), almost doubling the old distance ...
The Right Stuff is a 1983 American epic historical drama film written and directed by Philip Kaufman and based on the 1979 book of the same name by Tom Wolfe.The film follows the Navy, Marine, and Air Force test pilots who were involved in aeronautical research at Edwards Air Force Base, California, as well as the Mercury Seven, the seven military pilots who were selected to be the astronauts ...
Despite this longstanding aversion to flying, Shepard allowed Chuck Yeager to take him up in a jet in 1982 in preparation for playing the pilot in the film The Right Stuff. [46] [47] Shepard cited his fear of flying as a source for a character in his 1966 play Icarus's Mother. [48] His character went through an airliner crash in the film Voyager.
The aircraft was an ode to Chuck Yeager, a long-time Grass Valley resident and World War II fighter pilot known for being the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound in 1947.
Rogers Commission Report. Front page of the Commission Report to Congress. The Rogers Commission Report was written by a Presidential Commission charged with investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster during its 10th mission, STS-51-L. The report, released and submitted to President Ronald Reagan on June 9, 1986, determined both the ...