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Chuck Yeager, a US Air Force fighter pilot, was a fighter ace in World War II.

After World War II, he became a Test Pilot and became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound on 14 October 1947 while flying a Bell X-1 experimental aircraft named "Glamorous Glennis"

The flight originated at the Muroc Army Air Field, now Edwards Airforce Base in California, near Los Angeles.

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He didn't invent anything. He was a test pilot and astronaut.

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