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How Chuck Yeager’s Flight Launched America’s Space Age

The Problem That Grounded the Future By the late 1940s, American aviation had reached a limit literally. Fighter aircra ...
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Oct. 14, 1947: Flying faster than sound

When Glamorous Glennis, an experimental Bell X-1 aircraft built to mimic the shape of a .50 caliber bullet, shot to 700 mph (1,127 km/h) with Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager inside, it paved the way ...
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OTD in Space - October 14: Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier

On Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time! Yeager was a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force who made history by flying an aircraft faster than the speed of sound. He made ...
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Bell Ringer: Aviator Charles “Chuck” Yeager

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Senate Floor Senator Joe Manchin spoke on the Senate floor in honor of General Charles “Chuck” Yeager’s 90th birthday. What are some details of Chuck ...
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Forever flying : fifty years of high-flying adventures, from barnstorming in prop planes to dogfighting Germans to testing supersonic jets : an autobiography / by R.A. "Bob ...

Part I:The Early Days -- Flying Lessons -- Going to war -- Part II: The War Years -- Fighting the Germans -- The Distinguished Flying Cross -- The Spitfire goes down -- Prisoner of war -- Escape from ...