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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. Missions feature several of Yeager's accomplishments and let players challenge his records.
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 ...
Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (born February 13, 1923) is a retired Brigadier-General in the United States Air Force and a noted test pilot. In 1947, he, at age 24, became the first pilot to travel faster than sound in level flight and ascent. His career began in World War II as a private in the U.S. Army Air Forces.
Pilot again found low-frequency elevator buzz at mach 0.93. Turbopump overspeeding caused powered flight abort. X-1A #7: November 21, 1953 Chuck Yeager 48-1384 USAF 1 1.15 ? Familiarization flight. X-1A #8: December 2, 1953 Chuck Yeager 48-1384 USAF 2 1.5 ? - X-1A #9: December 8, 1953 Chuck Yeager 48-1384 USAF 3 1.9 18,300 First high-mach flight.
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A second flight will take place in October 1948 and will be successful. October 14 – U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager takes the rocket-powered Bell X-1 past the speed of sound in the first controlled, supersonic, level flight. The flight, which achieves Mach 1.06, sets a new world air speed record of 807.2 mph (1,299.1 km/h). A few days ...
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 ...
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 ...