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Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager (/ ˈ j eɪ ɡ ər / 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.
[2] [4] In the 1983 film The Right Stuff, Ridley was portrayed, including beyond the time of his death, by Levon Helm. Scenes with the Bell X-1 occurred while Ridley was still alive. However, the scene in which Yeager crashes the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter in 1963 occurred after Ridley's death in the 1957 plane crash.
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 ...
The World War II fighter pilot ace, who became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound in 1947, has died.
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 ...
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. [47] [48] Shepard cited his fear of flying as a source for a character in his 1966 play Icarus's Mother. [49] His character went through an airliner crash in the film Voyager.
Charles E. (Chuck) Yeager, retired Air Force general and the first person to break the sound barrier in level flight Alton G. Keel, Jr. , executive director of the commission Commission witnesses
One of the first police officers to arrive at the scene following the death of an 86-year-old widow told a court he and colleagues made a "terrible mistake" by initially not treating the death as ...