He was the first person to break the sound barrier in level flight on 14 October 1947 in a Bell X-l aircraft.
Chuck Yeager was a test pilot born in 1923. He is most famous for being the first pilot to break the sound barrier.
Charles Elwood Yeager AKA Chuck Yeager
Chuck Yeager
Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in October 1947. Best pilot ever!
Chuck Yeager
Chuck Yeager was famous because he was the first man to pilot a craft above the speed of sound. He did this more than once when the US was developing super sonic aircraft.
The first pilot to break the sound barrier is Charles Elwood Yeager Aka Chuck Yeager. This happened on October 14, 1947 at a speed of 662 miles per hour at an altitude of 40,000ft.
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US test pilot Chuck Yeager was the first person to break the sound barrier. He did this in 1947 flying the Bell X-1.
Chuck Yeager.
Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager. The attached link will take you to NASA's copy of Captain Yeager's flight report.
Chuck Yeager's birth name is Charles Elwood Yeager.