Chuck Yeager and his Bell X-1 experimental supersonic plane, named
after his wife.
Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager is a retired major general in the
United States Air Force and former test pilot. He was the first pilot
to travel faster than sound in 1947.
Nov.-Dec. 2010
Yeager is depicted by actor Sam Shepard in the 1983 film "The Right Stuff".
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