History of Chuck Yeager

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 ...

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.

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

In July 1945 he went to Wright Field, Ohio, where he received his first experimental flight test work. His assignment there led to his selection as pilot of the ...

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

Yeager was dispatched to Europe in 1954 to serve as commander of the 417th Fighter Bomber Squadron before he returned to the U.S. to oversee the 1st Fighter Day ...

History of Chuck Yeager

Brigadier General Chuck Yeager was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot best known for exceeding the speed of sound in ...

General Chuck Yeager, USAF | Academy of Achievement

Chuck Yeager is unquestionably the most famous test pilot of all time. He won a permanent place in the history of aviation as the first pilot ever to fly faster ...

Charles E. Yeager - New Mexico Museum of Space History

Chuck Yeager graduated from the Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama, in June 1961. He became commandant of the Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards AFB, ...

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 ...

1923-1941: Humble Beginnings – The Chuck Yeager Foundation

Brigadier General Chuck Yeager was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot best known for exceeding the speed of sound in ...

Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier | October 14, 1947 | HISTORY

U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.

TIMELINE - Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager made his last flight as a military consultant on October 14, 1997, the 50th anniversary of his history-making flight in the X-1. He observed the ...

Chuck Yeager - e-WV

General Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (February 13, 1923 – December 7, 2020), the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound, ...

Breaking the Sound Barrier: Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1

“Chuck” Yeager, became the first airplane to fly faster than the speed of sound (Mach 1). The experimental purpose-built aircraft reached 1,127 ...

Captain Chuck Yeager: Breaking the Sound Barrier

On October 14, 1947, USAF Captain Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.

Chuck Yeager – Early Years - British Modern Military History Society

On November 6th Yeager, flying near Essen, looked down through a hole in the cloud and couldn't believe his luck in seeing three Me 262 jets milling around. He ...

Chuck Yeager's Lasting Legacy > > Display - Airman Magazine

General Yeager made world history on Oct. 14, 1947, when he became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. During his nine-year ...

The Legacy of Chuck Yeager: Pioneering Supersonic Flight - AVI-8

Charles Elwood Yeager was born on February 13, 1923, in Myra, West Virginia. From a young age, he was fascinated by aviation and spent much of his time building ...

Chuck Yeager: Fighter Pilot - Warfare History Network

Yeager Becomes an Ace. The aviation pioneer Chuck Yeager was an ace in the European Theater during World War II Yeager became an ace in a day on October 12, ...

BIOGRAPHY - 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.

X-1 Biographies--Charles E. (Chuck) Yeager - NASA

He went to Vietnam as a wing commander in 1966 and flew over 120 combat missions. In 1986, Yeager was appointed to the Presidential Commission ...