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“FLIER BAGS 5 NAZI PLANES TO VINDICATE IKE’S RULING” A ruling by Gen. Eisenhower last July cancelling the orders which would have returned 1/Lt. Charles E. Yeager, Mustang pilot from Hamlin, W. Va., to the U.S. after being shot down and wounded in enemy territory and getting back to England proved to be bad news…

U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager’s signature inside the cockpit of the Bell X-1 “Glamorous Glennis.”  The signature is dated the same day as his record-breaking flight of October 14, 1947 when the Bell X-1 became the first airplane to fly faster than the speed of sound. Yeager flew the X-1 to a speed…

April 19, 1949 issue of TIME magazine featuring Chuck Yeager on the cover.

CELEBRATED TEST PILOT CHUCK YEAGER HAD A LONG AND EVENTFUL LIFE – MOST NOTABLY BECOMING THE FIRST PILOT TO BREAK THE SOUND BARRIER. AND HE DID IT IN A PLANE NAMED AFTER HIS FIRST WIFE – “GLAMOROUS GLENNIS” DICKHOUSE. Who was Chuck Yeager’s first wife Glennis Dickhouse? Glennis Dickhouse was pilot Chuck Yeager’s wife of…

By Richard Goldstein A World War II fighter ace and Air Force general, he was, according to Tom Wolfe, “the most righteous of all the possessors of the right stuff.” Chuck Yeager, the most famous test pilot of his generation who was the first to break the sound barrier, and, thanks to Tom Wolfe, came to…

By Susan King The newly refurbished theater at the famed Hollywood American Legion Post 43 will be blasting off Veterans Day evening with a 35 mm screening of Philip Kaufman’s acclaimed 1983 film, “The Right Stuff.” Based on Tom Wolfe’s bestseller, the epic chronicled the early years of the U.S. race to space and the test…

MORE THAN 65 YEARS AFTER IT WAS FILMED, JET PILOT MOVIE FEATURES SOME OF THE MOST SPECTACULAR AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN FILM HISTORY. Jet Pilot is a 1957 film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh. Written and produced by Jules Furthman and presented by Howard Hughes, the movie was filmed…

NASA’s experimental supersonic X-plane project has a new name: the X-59 QueSST. So, what’s in the name? Well, the “X-59” part is a nod back to American X-plane history, which kicked off with the world’s first supersonic plane, the Bell X-1, famously piloted by Chuck Yeager in 1947 when it broke the speed of sound. Yeager nicknamed the…

A remarkable reunion occurred recently at Edwards AFB, California when the two key veterans involved in the breaking of the sound barrier in 1947 returned to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the achievement.  Meeting on stage on October 13, the day before the anniversary, were 94-year-old Brig. Gen (Ret.) Chuck Yeager, pilot of the experimental Bell…

The anniversary of the first manned supersonic flight comes around every year on Oct. 14. Being that this one falls “on the tens,” we will see more celebration and reflection of this famous date when the Bell X-1, with Chuck Yeager at the controls, “chased that demon out in the thin air” and punched a…