Chuck Yeager
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For many people, Chuck Yeager is a true hero in the strictest definition of the word. Throughout his career, Yeager displayed distinguished courage and performed several extraordinarily brave deeds, although he only considered such acts as following his duty. Many people...
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Editor's Note: This article originally ran in our November 1987 Popular Mechanics issue. It was the 40th anniversary of the day Gen. Yeager climbed into the Bell X-1 and became the first man to...
The anniversary of the first manned supersonic flight comes around every year on Oct. 14.
Being that this one falls “on the tens,” we will see more celebration and reflection of this famous date when the Bell X-1, with Chuck Yeager at the controls, “chased that demon out in the...
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Along with being the first craft...
By Jim Clash, Forbes.com
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U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager's signature inside the cockpit of the Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis." The signature is dated the same day as his record-breaking flight of October 14, 1947 when the Bell X-1 became the first airplane to fly faster than the speed of sound. Yeager...