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Brigadier GeneralCharles Elwood Yeager(/ˈjeɪɡər/YAY-gər, February 13, 1923 – December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Forceofficer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilotwho in October 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of soundin level flight. Yeager was raised in Hamlin, West Virginia.
The third NF-104A (USAF 56-0762) was delivered to the USAF on 1 November 1963, and was destroyed in a crash while being piloted by Chuck Yeager on 10 December 1963. This accident was depicted in the book Yeager: An Autobiography, and the book and film adaptation of The Right Stuff. The aircraft used for filming was a standard F-104G flying with ...
Manufactured. 1979-1993 [1] First flight. May 18, 1979. Developed from. Piper PA-31T Cheyenne. The Piper PA-42 Cheyenne is a turboprop aircraft built by Piper Aircraft. The PA-42 Cheyenne is a larger development of the earlier PA-31T Cheyennes I and II (which are, in turn, turboprop developments of the PA-31 Navajo).
8 January 1944. Retired. 1959 (United States) 1974 (Chile) Developed into. Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star Lockheed F-94 Starfire. The Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star was the first jet fighter used operationally by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II. [ 1 ] Designed and built by Lockheed in 1943 and delivered just 143 days ...
The Wonder Years (2021) The Wonder Years is an American coming-of-age comedy television series created by Neal Marlens and Carol Black. [ 1 ] It ran on ABC from January 31, 1988, until May 12, 1993. The series premiered immediately after ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] The series stars Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold, a teenager ...
The film also mirrored the exploits of real-life test pilots such as Chuck Yeager who were the subjects of headlines all over the world. [N 8] [17] Bosley Crowther of The New York Times, summed up its impact, however, as "The principals, to put it briefly, are never as fascinating as the aircraft pointed at the future in 'Toward the Unknown'." [18]
The Bell X-2 (nicknamed "Starbuster" [1]) was an X-plane research aircraft built to investigate flight characteristics in the Mach 2–3 range. The X-2 was a rocket-powered, swept-wing research aircraft developed jointly in 1945 by Bell Aircraft Corporation, the United States Army Air Forces and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to explore aerodynamic problems of ...
The Miles M.52 was a turbojet-powered supersonic research aircraft project designed in the United Kingdom in the mid-1940s. In October 1943, Miles Aircraft was issued with a contract to produce the aircraft in accordance with Air Ministry Specification E.24/43. The programme was highly ambitious for its time, aiming to produce an aircraft ...