Film Dope
Chuck Yeager
Tuesday, 13th February 1923 - Monday, 7th December 2020
USA
| Retired 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. Yeager, from a small town in the hills of West Virginia, flew for more than 60 years, including piloting an F-15 to near 1,000 mph at Edwards Air Force Base in October 2002 at age 79. On October 14, 1947, Yeager, then a 24-year-old captain, pushed an orange, bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane past 660 mph to break the sound barrier, at the time a daunting aviation milestone. He said he could have gone even faster if the plane had carried more fuel. Yeager died in Los Angeles, California on December 7, 2020. |
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