"Flier Bags 5 Nazi Planes To Vindicate Ike’s Ruling"
A ruling by Gen. Eisenhower last July cancelling the orders which would have returned 1/Lt. Charles E. Yeager, Mustang pilot from Hamlin, W. Va., to the U.S. after being shot down and wounded in enemy territory and getting back to England...
By David Bitton dbitton@appealdemocrat.com
"Duty!"
That's retired Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager's response to the question everyone wants to know more about: What's it mean to be the first person to break the sound barrier?
"I was a maintenance type and since I understood systems, I was assigned as a test pilot on...
Female American pilot Jackie Cochran made history on this day when in 1953 she became the first woman to break the sound barrier.
American pilot Jackie Cochran, who became the first woman to break the sound barrier 65 years ago today, owes some of her breakthrough success in the sky...
On December 12, 1953, Chuck Yeager flew the Bell X-1A 1,650 mph, becoming the first man to fly two and one-half times the speed of sound.
At Mach 2.4 at 80,000 feet the aircraft spun out of control, spinning on all 3 axes. G-forces sent Yeager's head into the canopy,...
Chuck Yeager retraced history in the skies -- 65 years to the minute -- as the first test pilot to break the sound barrier.
Source: Chuck Yeager retraces history in the sky, breaking the sound barrier -- again - CNN.com
Chuck Yeager retraced history on Sunday, 65 years to the minute,...
The first American to orbit the earth, and later a four-term U.S. senator from Ohio, died Thursday.
John Glenn died at the age of 95. One of the Mercury 7, he left the space race to pursue his political passions and became a U.S. senator. He finally returned to space...
Scott Glenn as Alan Shepherd confronts a NASA scientist about changes to the Mercury capsule while the other astronauts (Charles Frank as Scott Carpenter, Fred Ward as Gus Grissom, Ed Harris as John Glenn and Dennis Quaid as...
Source: Sharing nature's bounty | Sports Columns | register-herald.com
As sportsmen and those of us who cherish the outdoor lifestyle, it is our responsibility to give back where we can. It can be sharing the experience of hunting with someone brand new to the sport, donating time to a conservation...
John Buchanan left Okinawa, an island fresh to the idea of industrialization, a place that now exists only in memory. He returned in September of 2015, although not quite as he had planned.
Source: DVIDS - News - Through Airman’s eyes: Old memories revisited
Story by Airman 1st Class Nicholas Emerick
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Before Tom Cruise soared into the danger zone with Top Gun, Sam Shepard, who died Thursday, brought a true American pilot hero to the screen in immortal style.
Shepard's breakout Oscar-nominated performance as pioneering test pilot Chuck Yeager was the soul of writer/director Philip Kaufman's 1984 classic The Right Stuff.
The actor...