Fifty years ago, a test pilot with the right stuff changed the future of aviation forever.
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...
Source: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Charles "Chuck" Yeager stopped by the Museum last Friday to visit with the Bell X-1, the airplane in which he broke the sound barrier 68 years ago last month.
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 1:22pm by Megan Crouse, Real-Time Digital Reporter, @abmdigi
On this day in 1947, U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager and the X-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier, marking the first time a human flew faster than the speed of sound.
Along with being the first craft...
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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DUNNELLON — Steve Maple had no fear of flying or crashing any of his four World War II-era radio-controlled scale model airplanes he entered in the 15th annual Tri County R/C Club Chuck Yeager Warbird Fly-In held at Rainbow R/C field on Bridges Road near here Saturday.
Source: Remote-control airplane...
Source: Charles Yeager and Pakistan Air Force - Daily Pakistan Global
LAHORE (Staff Report) – Charles Yeager, a retired brigadier general in the United States Air Force and record-setting test pilot, was posted to Pakistan as the US Defense Representative from 1971 to 1973, during the Indo-Pak war on East...
The test pilot legend made famous in 'The Right Stuff' talks to USA TODAY about his life.
Source: Chuck Yeager, still soaring at 89
GRASS VALLEY, Calif. – In the parking lot of this small Sierra Nevada town's airfield, a decommissioned F-104 Starfighter jet looms over a series of plaques. They...
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...
Military test pilots are a rare breed, undertaking the responsibility of flying new aircraft to their design limits . . . and then beyond.
Source: 6 of the most badass US military test pilots of all timeMilitary test pilots are a rare breed, undertaking the responsibility of flying new aircraft...
A local military legend unveiled his new statue and vets saluted the Battle of Midway.
Source: World War II heroes honored Saturday | UTSanDiego.com
SAN DIEGO — In Balboa Park, a local military legend unveiled a statue bearing his likeness, and hours later on the USS Midway, veterans and their families...