It should be noted, however, that Chuck Yeager, the famed test pilot who became the first man to break the sound barrier in ...

Chuck Yeager sat in the cockpit as the ur-pilot, the epitome of the Right Stuff. On this bright, brisk morning near Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California, October 14, 1947, he was preparing to ...

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 ...

On October 14, 1947, US Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 experimental plane at Mach 1 some 40,000 feet over the Mojave Desert, becoming the first human to travel faster than the speed ...

In 1947, Chuck Yeager was a Captain with the United States Air Force assigned as a test pilot to the X-1 program. On October 14, 1947, he became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.

Chuck Yeager was the first person ever to break the sound barrier in 1947, at the age of 24. His success in the Bell X-1 experimental rocket plane helped pave the way for the US space programme ...

Do you think Edmund Hillary was passionate about climbing Mt. Everest? How about Chuck Yeager? Could he have accomplished all he did without passion? In fact, is it possible for ...