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During this time, Yeager also served as a technical adviser for three Electronic Arts flight simulator video games. 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.
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 ...
Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager, the World War II fighter pilot ace and quintessential test pilot who showed he had the “right stuff” when in 1947 he became the first ...
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
A Douglas C-47D Skytrain (built as a C-47B-1-DK), 43-48298, c/n 25559, [96] of the 123d Air Base Group, Godman AFB, Kentucky, [97] with nine officers and 12 enlisted men on board to attend the funeral of a brother pilot who died in a crash Thursday, crashes ~eight miles NE of Kanawha Airport, Charleston, West Virginia, when it clips the top of ...
Yeager hit two grand slams in a single game while playing for Meadowdale. He is the cousin of the late test pilot Chuck Yeager. [2] Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley was the best man at his wedding to local rock musician Gloria Giaone. [1] Yeager is Jewish, having converted to Judaism when his career was over. [3] He later moved to Granada Hills ...
She also wrote, produced and hosted the "Rambles with Roberta" radio shows in California and New York. On September 6, 1948, Scott became the first American woman to fly in a jet when she was the passenger in a TF-80C piloted by Chuck Yeager. Knowing Scott's history as a stunt pilot, Yeager treated her to some snap rolls and a 14,000 foot dive.
Bee Curious answers a reader’s question about a plane that was once seen alongside Interstate 80 in Sacramento.