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Duty led to history: Catching up with Chuck Yeager

By David Bitton “Duty!” That’s retired Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager’s response to the question everyone wants to know more about: What’s it mean to be the first person to break the sound barrier? “I was a maintenance type and since I understood systems, I was assigned as a test pilot on the X-1, the first…

Chuck Yeager retraces history in the sky, breaking the sound barrier – again

By Chelsea J. Carter and Don Lemon Chuck Yeager retraced history on Sunday, 65 years to the minute, as the first test pilot to break the sound barrier, taking to the skies once again to fly faster than the speed of sound.  The 89-year-old Yeager broke the sound barrier in a U.S. Air Force F-15…

Supersonic Flight Stamp 

By Smithsonian National Postal Museum On October 14, 1947, Captain Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager became the first pilot to break the sound barrier. Flying the rocket-powered Bell X-1, he achieved Mach 1.06. Fifty years later the USPS commemorated that event with a 32-cent postage stamp honoring the first supersonic flight, and Chuck Yeager recreated his…

YEAGER TIES INTO JET STREAM FOR 3 MORE FLYING RECORDS

By Orlando Sentinel Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier, set another speed record Saturday by catching the jet stream and flying a corporate jet across the country in 5 hours and 24 minutes. The flight set three speed records, including the fastest coast-to-coast flight for a corporate jet. That now gives…

TIME magazine featuring Chuck Yeager on the cover

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

BOYS LIFE, JUNE 1947

This Article originally appeared in Boys Life in June 1947, 4 months before the actual breaking of the sound barrier. Little did they know it was only months away when this was published!