Americans, including Vice President Mike Pence, today remembered a West Virginia legend whose many legendary accomplishments can only be summed up with one phrase, “The Right Stuff.” “The life of ...

Ask the average person on the street whom they would regard as the ultimate pilot, and you will typically get one of two answers: Charles Lindbergh and Chuck Yeager. The US Army Air Corps (and later ...

Retired Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager (February 13, 1923 - December 7, 2020) was a former United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot. In 1947, he became the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Airport officials and the wife of late General Chuck Yeager are coming together to welcome in newly donated memorabilia that’s continuing to honor the West Virginia native, famous ...

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 1987, file photo, retired Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager unveils a statue of himself, in Hamlin, W.Va., on the 40th anniversary of his historic supersonic flight. Yeager, the first ...

On Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time! Yeager was a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force who made history by flying an aircraft faster than the speed of sound. He made ...

All across the globe Chuck Yeager’s 100th birthday was celebrated. Here at home, Marshall University's Bill Noe Flight School did its part by doing a formation flyby. Yeager died Dec. 7, 2020, at the ...

Even though he was 20 years older, I grew up with Chuck Yeager. That's because I'm from West Virginia, and students there hear about him as soon as they're old enough to understand how important he ...

Winston Churchill used to advise young people to read “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations,” the oft-updated compilation of brief quotes from just about anyone who said something memorable. Of course, ...

Frank Borman did not expect to hear a congratulations from Chuck Yeager one day in 1962—and that’s just as well because he didn’t get one. It wasn’t a surprise that Yeager wouldn’t extend much ...