Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles "Chuck" Yeager, the World War II fighter pilot ace and quintessential test pilot who showed he had the "right stuff" when in 1947 he became the first person to fly faster than sound, had died....
Full ArticleChuck Yeager, first pilot to break sound barrier, dies at 97
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