Happy 91st Birthday To General Chuck Yeager

As Biography.com notes, today is the 91st birthday of legendary Air Force pilot General Chuck Yeager.

Aviator and test pilot Chuck Yeager was born on February 13, 1923, in Myra, West Virginia. A fighter pilot ace during World War II, he became the first person to break the sound barrier, when he flew the Bell X-1 rocket 670 mph in level flight in October 1947. Yeager broke the sound barrier for the last time at age 79, when his F-15 Eagle reached a speed of Mach 1.45 in 2002. He held various air-force command assignments from 1954 to 1962.

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http://www.biography.com/people/chuck-yeager-9538831

You can also visit his web page via the below link:

http://www.chuckyeager.com/

And you can visit an earlier post on General Yeager via the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2012/10/chuck-yeager-breaks-sound-barrier-again.html

Retired General Chuck Yeager Still Gruff, Colorful And Quotable At 88

Bill Glauber at the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel wrote an interesting piece about retired Air Force General Chuck Yeager.

At 88, Chuck Yeager still has the right stuff.

He flies.

He hunts.

He goes fishing.

And he spins tales of an extraordinary aviation career.

"I tell it the way I remember it - that's not necessarily the way it happened," Yeager said Wednesday, speaking to an overflow audience settled into a museum hangar at the EAA AirVenture event.

The greatest test pilot of his era, perhaps the greatest of all time, was the first man to fly through the sound barrier. His exploits were long-ago celebrated in the acclaimed Tom Wolfe book "The Right Stuff," later brought to the screen.

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http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/126285828.html