2020 Chuck Yeager, the legendary pilot and retired Air Force brigadier general who broke the sound barrier in 1947, has died. He was 97 years old. Yeager’s wife Victoria announced his death on ...
Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 experimental plane at ... when the X-1 - nicknamed "Glamorous Glennis" after Yeager's wife - was ready to fly into the "ugh-known," as Yeager and others called it.
Air Force test pilot Captain Charles Elwood ("Chuck") Yeager, a World War II fighter ... he had named this airplane after his ...