The TV series Baa Baa Black Sheep aired on NBC from 1976 until 1978.
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.
Yeager is depicted by actor Sam Shepard in the 1983 film "The Right Stuff".
Monument at the crash site, a corn field near Clear Lake, Iowa.
Buddy Holly J. P. "The Big Bopper" Ritchie Valens
Richardson
Roger Arthur Peterson was the 21-year-old pilot of
the 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza that crashed, taking
the lives of Holly, Valens, and Richardson as well
as himself.
A 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza 35 (V-tail) similar to the one flown by
Peterson.