Air Force pilot who was the first man to break the sound barrier and whose exploits were popularized in Tom Wolfe's book, The Right Stuff, and the subsequent movie, in which he was played by Sam Shepard. Yeager shot down 13 German planes during World War II, then broke speed records multiple times while flying the X-1 jet.
Age 97.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/07/us/chuck ... index.html
RIP Chuck Yeager
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Re: RIP Chuck Yeager
silverscreenselect wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 3:51 amAir Force pilot who was the first man to break the sound barrier and whose exploits were popularized in Tom Wolfe's book, The Right Stuff, and the subsequent movie, in which he was played by Sam Shepard. Yeager shot down 13 German planes during World War II, then broke speed records multiple times while flying the X-1 jet.
Age 97.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/07/us/chuck ... index.html
The X-1 was a rocket, not a jet. He was the first person to break the sound barrier in level flight using it.
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- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.