On Dec. 12, 1953, Chuck Yeager set two more altitude and speed ... types of aircraft and retired from the Air Force as a brigadier general. Bob van der Linden of the National Air and Space Museum ...

US Air Force officer and test pilot Chuck Yeager, known as “the fastest ... Yeager retired from the Air Force with the rank of Brigadier General in 1975, having flown 10,131.6 hours in some ...

The term "legend" suffers from overuse, but how else to describe Chuck Yeager? The retired Air Force brigadier general, who died Monday at age 97, had a permanent eye twinkle and crinkly grin ...

Chuck Yeager is a legendary American hero. The 93-year-old retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general was a World War II ace whose exploits include shooting down five enemy fighters during a single ...

Informal portrait of Brigadier General Charles E. 'Chuck' Yeager, standing on the cockpit ladder of a McDonnell Douglas F-15B Eagle at Edwards AFB, CA. Circa 1980s. National Air and Space Museum ...

Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound ... of what we understood was possible in his time.” Yeager, a brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force, died Dec. 7 at the age of 97.

CHARLESTON — A new exhibit celebrating what would have been the 100th birthday of Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager in 2023 and the upcoming 77th anniversary of him breaking the sound ...

Courtesy of Chuck Yeager His feat put General Yeager in ... head of aerospace safety for the Air Force, he retired as a brigadier general in 1975. His decorations included the Distinguished ...

US Air Force officer and test pilot Chuck Yeager, known as “the fastest ... Yeager retired from the Air Force with the rank of Brigadier General in 1975, having flown 10,131.6 hours in some ...

After test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first man to break ... and the promotions, finally to brigadier general, kept coming. Along the way, he lost command of a fighter squadron after his ...

“Chuck” Yeager, a military test pilot who ... He retired as an Air Force brigadier general in 1975, although in an honorary gesture, he was promoted to the rank of major general in 2005.