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    Journals' "Chuck Yeager: Booming And Zooming" Part 1 and Part 2 "Chuck Yeager & the Sound Barrier" in Aerospaceweb.org Space.com: Chuck Yeager Chuck Yeager at...
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  • Chuck Yeager's Air Combat is a 1991 combat flight simulation video game by Electronic Arts. Chuck Yeager was a technical consultant in the game and his...
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  • F. Yeager, (1892-1961) American horticulturalist Biff Yeager, American actor Bunny Yeager (1929–2014), American photographer and model Chuck Yeager (1923–2020)...
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  • barrier, war hero Captain Chuck Yeager receives the chance to fly the X-1. While on a horseback ride with his wife Glennis, Yeager collides with a tree branch...
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    Bell X-1 (category Chuck Yeager)
    The X-1 aircraft #46-062, nicknamed Glamorous Glennis and flown by Chuck Yeager, was the first piloted airplane to exceed the speed of sound in level...
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    represented a barrier to flying at faster speeds. In 1947, American test pilot Chuck Yeager demonstrated that safe flight at the speed of sound was achievable in...
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    One of the aircraft was destroyed in an accident while being flown by Chuck Yeager. The accident was depicted in the book The Right Stuff and the film of...
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  • the Mercury Seven and their families with other test pilots such as Chuck Yeager, who was never selected as an astronaut. Wolfe wrote that the book was...
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    an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Right Stuff. He received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater...
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    nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Chuck Yeager in the film The Right Stuff (1983). The following year, he was nominated...
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  • the first crewed airplane to exceed the speed of sound in level flight and was the first of the X-planes. Bell X-1 Chuck Yeager Yeager:An Autobiography...
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    Dayton, Ohio. Yeager hit two grand slams in a single game while playing for Meadowdale. He is the cousin of the late test pilot Chuck Yeager. Los Angeles...
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  • Society of Yeager Scholars is the name of the highest academic scholarship offered at Marshall University, named in honor of Chuck Yeager, the first recorded...
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    having the same last name, Jeana Yeager is not related to fellow aviator and test pilot General Chuck Yeager. Yeager and Dick Rutan decided to attempt...
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    Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer is an aircraft simulation computer game published by Electronic Arts in 1987. It was originally released as Chuck...
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    American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member General Chuck Yeager. Retton was elected to the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame...
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    encompasses Edwards Air Force Base where the sound barrier was first broken by Chuck Yeager. The speed of sound at sea level is 661 knots, hence the correlation...
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    and 12,000m): with retired United States Air Force Brigadier General Chuck Yeager at the helm of N400PS (with co-pilot Renald "Dav" Davenport flying right-seat)...
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    & Silling. In 1985 the airport was named for then-Brigadier General Chuck Yeager, a native of nearby Lincoln County who piloted the world's first supersonic...
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  • Inertia coupling (category Chuck Yeager)
    accelerations and loads. In 1953, inertial roll coupling nearly killed Chuck Yeager in the X-1A. Inertial roll coupling was one of three distinct coupling...
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    commercial aerospace industry. Notable occurrences at Edwards include Chuck Yeager's flight that broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, test flights of...
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  • York, serving since 1999 Chuck Hull (born 1939), inventor of 3D printing Chuck Testa (born 1956), American taxidermist Chuck Yeager (1923–2020), retired brigadier...
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    barrier in 1945 in an Me 262, but mainstream opinion continues to regard Chuck Yeager as the first person to achieve this milestone in 1947 in a Bell X-1....
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    flight, and was highly respected among fellow test pilots, most notably Chuck Yeager, for his engineering skills. Jack Ridley was born on June 16, 1915, in...
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    Vegas Review Journal. "Gen. Chuck Yeager Biography Photo". 1995. Academy members, actor Tom Selleck and General Chuck Yeager, at an Academy of Achievement...
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  • Bell X-1 Chuck Yeager Joseph Walker...
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    Arc, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Sophie Scholl, Alvin York, Audie Murphy, and Chuck Yeager, and fictional "superheroes", including Superman, Spider-Man, Batman...
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    Theodore H. Winters Jr. (three awards) Jerauld Wright Tahsin Yazıcı Chuck Yeager (two awards) Elton Younger Albert C. Zapanta Douglas A. Zembiec List...
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    " The Journal of East Tennessee History 79 (2007), 1–19. Yeager, Chuck and Leo Janos. Yeager, An Autobiography. New York: Bantam Books, 1985. ISBN 0-553-05093-1...
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    Rogers Commission Report (category Chuck Yeager)
    Central Intelligence Agency's aerial surveillance program Charles E. (Chuck) Yeager, retired Air Force general and the first person to break the sound barrier...
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