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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.
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
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 ...
In early 1982, Yeager set a new women's speed record for the 2,000-kilometer closed course and in the fall of 1984 using the VariEze, she set the open-distance record of 2,427.1 statute miles. [5] [6] Despite having the same last name, Jeana Yeager is not related to fellow aviator and test pilot General Chuck Yeager. [7]
Both flights were piloted by Bell test pilot Jean "Skip" Ziegler. After NACA started its high-speed testing with the Douglas Skyrocket, culminating in Scott Crossfield achieving Mach 2.005 on 20 November 1953, the Air Force started a series of tests with the X-1A, which the test pilot of the series, Chuck Yeager, named "Operation NACA Weep ...
December 7. 2020 - United States Air Force Test pilot Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to ever break the sound barrier, dies at age 97 in Los Angeles, California.; 2012 – A missile fired by an American unmanned aerial vehicle strikes a house near Mir Ali in North Waziristan, Pakistan, killing senior al-Qaeda leader Sheik Khalid Bin Abdel Rehman Al-Hussainan, also known as Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti ...
The aircraft was an ode to Chuck Yeager, a long-time Grass Valley resident and World War II fighter pilot known for being the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound in 1947.
2020 - United States Air Force Test pilot Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to ever break the sound barrier, dies at age 97 in Los Angeles, California. 2012 – A missile fired by an American unmanned aerial vehicle strikes a house near Mir Ali in North Waziristan , Pakistan , killing senior al-Qaeda leader Sheik Khalid Bin Abdel Rehman Al ...