Gen. Chuck Yeager

Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October 1947 became the ...

CHARLES E. "CHUCK" YEAGER > Air Force > Biography Display

Brig. Gen. Charles E. (Chuck) Yeager was the director of Aerospace Safety for the Air Force Inspection and Safety Center, a separate operating agency.

The Chuck Yeager Foundation – The Official Website of General ...

General Chuck Yeager is one of the greatest aviators that ever lived. His commitment to service, duty, love of his country, his flag are evident in all that he ...

Chuck Yeager | Biography, Test Pilot, & Facts | Britannica

Chuck Yeager, American test pilot and U.S. Air Force officer who was the first man to exceed the speed of sound in flight.

General Chuck Yeager – American Hero

Chuck Yeager was a commander of enormous courage and Chuck Yeager was a great man who dedicated his life to the service of this country.

General Chuck Yeager, USAF | Academy of Achievement

General Chuck Yeager, USAF, First Man to Break the Sound Barrier. Listen to this achiever on What It Takes.

Charles E. Yeager - New Mexico Museum of Space History

Charles “Chuck” E. Yeager was born on February 19, 1923, in Myra, West Virginia. His father, a natural gas driller in the local coalfields, moved the family to ...

Chuck Yeager - Death, Career & Facts - Biography (Bio.)

A fighter pilot ace during World War II, Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, when he flew the Bell X-1 rocket 700 mph in level ...

Brigadier General Charles Elwood (“Chuck”) Yeager, United States ...

Colonel Yeager commanded the 405th Fighter Wing at Clark AFB, Philippine Islands, in July 1966. He flew 127 combat missions over Vietnam with ...

Brigadier General Charles “Chuck” Yeager Collection

General Yeager distinguished himself in aerial combat over France and Germany during the years 1943-1945 by shooting down 13 enemy aircraft, five on one ...

TIMELINE - Chuck Yeager

Major General Charles Elwood « Chuck » Yeager, born in 1923. He was the first man to break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, flying the experimental ...

Chuck Yeager: WWII Fighter Ace and Record Breaking Test Pilot

Brigadier General Charles “Chuck” Yeager was best known as the first man to break the sound barrier, but during World War II Yeager was a ...

Remembering Chuck Yeager, a Pilot with the Right Stuff

The greatest pilot of the Greatest Generation has passed. Seventy-nine years to the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, famed test pilot, ...

Chuck Yeager (@GenChuckYeager) / X

WWII Fighter Ace, America's hero, The Right Stuff. 1st person past Mach 1 Mach 2, huntin', fishin', author. His wife/wingman keeping Gen Yeager's legacy ...

Gen. Chuck Yeager, first person to break the sound barrier, dies at 97

The first unnamed hero I ever had. He was "the guy who flew a plane faster than the speed of sound" until I watched Quantum Leap, and then it ...

Chuck Yeager - Veterans in Blue

Major General (Ret.) Chuck Yeager is famous for being the first pilot to exceed the speed of Mach 1. In 1976, he was awarded a Congressional Silver Medal in ...

General Chuck Yeager Memorial Story - YouTube

General Chuck Yeager February 13, 1923 - December 7, 2020 In a life punctuated by sonic booms, General Chuck Yeager embodied much more than ...

Chuck Yeager, 1st to break sound barrier, dies at 97 - Air Force Times

Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager, the World War II fighter pilot ace and quintessential test pilot who showed he had the ...

General Chuck Yeager & B-2 : r/aviation - Reddit

As the commander of the USAF Test Pilot School, Yeager gave explicit direction to impede Ed Dwight, the USAF's first black test pilot, from advancing.

Chuck Yeager obituary | US military - The Guardian

In the early 1970s he was a US adviser to the Pakistan air force. He retired in 1976 as a brigadier-general – his wife thought he should have ...