As Biography.com notes, today is the 91st birthday of legendary Air Force pilot General Chuck Yeager.
Aviator and test pilot Chuck Yeager was born on February 13, 1923, in Myra, West Virginia. A fighter pilot ace during World War II, he became the first person to break the sound barrier, when he flew the Bell X-1 rocket 670 mph in level flight in October 1947. Yeager broke the sound barrier for the last time at age 79, when his F-15 Eagle reached a speed of Mach 1.45 in 2002. He held various air-force command assignments from 1954 to 1962.
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
http://www.biography.com/people/chuck-yeager-9538831
You can also visit his web page via the below link:
http://www.chuckyeager.com/
And you can visit an earlier post on General Yeager via the below link:
http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2012/10/chuck-yeager-breaks-sound-barrier-again.html
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