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US Air Force officer and test pilot Chuck Yeager, known as “the fastest man alive,” has died at the age of 97. Yeager broke the sound barrier when he tested the X-1 in October 1947, although...
In August 2008, the California Court of Appealruled for Yeager, finding that his daughter Susan had breached her duty as trustee. [124][125] Yeager lived in Grass Valley, Northern Californiaand died in the afternoon of December 7, 2020 (National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day), at age 97, in a Los Angeles hospital.
Death. On December 7, 2020, Yeager's daughter confirmed that he had passed away. Personal Life. Yeager was married to Glennis Yeager from 1945 until her death from cancer in 1990.
Chuck Yeager, the first human to go faster than the speed of sound, died Monday at a hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 97.
Chuck Yeager, the most famous test pilot of his generation, who was the first to break the sound barrier and, thanks to Tom Wolfe, came to personify the death-defying aviator who possessed the...
One of the world's most famous aviators has died: Chuck Yeager — best known as the first to break the sound barrier — died at the age of 97.
US test pilot Chuck Yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier, has died aged 97, his wife says.