The number one ship, Glamorous Glennis, made 78 flights. On 26 March 1948, with Chuck Yeager again in the cockpit, it reached ...

Chuck Yeager, the legendary pilot and retired Air Force brigadier general who broke the sound barrier in 1947, has died By Jared Keller Updated on Dec 8, 2020 Chuck Yeager, the legendary pilot and ...

Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 experimental plane ... when the X-1 - nicknamed "Glamorous Glennis" after Yeager's wife - was ready to fly into the "ugh-known," as Yeager and others called it.

Here’s What You Need to Know: On October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first pilot to fly supersonically, flying at Mach 1.06 and just breaking the sound barrier. The X-1, ...

But at around $100 million each, with the highest price tag ever associated with developing a weapons system, perhaps Yeager thinks the money would be better spent on training pilots and ...