Chuck Yeager

Exhibit on Chuck Yeager opens at West Virginia airport

October 25, 2022 GMT

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A new exhibit on Chuck Yeager coinciding with the 75th anniversary of his breaking the sound barrier has been opened at West Virginia International Yeager Airport.

Officials from the airport participated in the opening Monday, along with staff from Marshall University, where Yeager donated artifacts in 1986.

Chuck Yeager, 1st to break sound barrier, dies at 97

By TRACIE CONEDecember 9, 2020 GMT

GRASS VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager, the World War II fighter pilot ace and quintessential test pilot who showed he had the “right stuff” when in 1947 he became the first person to fly faster than sound, has died...

Today in History for October 14th

October 13, 2018 GMT