The remarkable flying career of Charles ‘Chuck’ Yeager - the first pilot to break the sound barrier and fly at supersonic ...
The F-104 was the result of hard lessons learned from the Korean War, after which American pilots ... It should be noted, however, that Chuck Yeager, the famed test pilot who became the first ...
n the morning of October 14, 1947, U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager made humankind’s first supersonic flight in the bullet-shaped Bell X-1 aircraft he nicknamed Glamorous ...