The Problem That Grounded the Future By the late 1940s, American aviation had reached a limit literally. Fighter aircra ...

When Glamorous Glennis, an experimental Bell X-1 aircraft built to mimic the shape of a .50 caliber bullet, shot to 700 mph (1,127 km/h) with Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager inside, it paved the way ...

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (WHTM) — On Oct. 14, 1947, Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager climbed into a Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first human being to break the sound barrier in level flight.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — This weekend will mark the celebration of the 76th anniversary of West Virginia native Chuck Yeager’s famous flight over the desert in California when he became the first human to ...

The Bell X-1 rocket plane proved that man was capable of breaking the sound barrier. Chuck Yeager, a pilot who was already well known for his skill behind the flight stick of a P-51 Mustang during ...

Other Facts: The first supersonic pilot , who has flown more than 200 different types of military aircraft. Trained many of the Gemini, Mercury and Apollo astronauts at the Air Force Aerospace ...

(Reuters) - Chuck Yeager, the steely "Right Stuff" test pilot who took aviation to the doorstep of space by becoming the first person to break the sound barrier more than 70 years ago, died on Monday ...