Chuck Yeager, the legendary pilot and retired Air ... After the war, Yeager became a test pilot at Muroc Army Air Field (now Edwards Air Force Base), becoming the first pilot to break the sound ...

Brigadier General (ret.) Chuck Yeager is an anachronism in the realm of Air Force flight testing. Nowadays, an Air Force flight test pilot has at least a bachelor's degree in engineering ...

Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 experimental plane ... He kept working as a test pilot - six years later he flew 1,650 mph aboard an X-1A rocket plane - and retired from the Air Force in 1975 as ...

The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test flight in the ... California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager, a World War II ace fighter pilot who became a military ...

A civilian jet broke the sound barrier for the first time Tuesday while making a historic test flight over the ... when Air Force pilot Capt. Chuck Yeager flew a rocket-propelled experimental ...

The XB-1, which has now completed 12 successful test flights since it first took ... in the same historic airspace where legendary pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time ...

THE XB-1 'Son of Concorde' jet is expected to reach speeds faster than sound for roughly four minutes in an upcoming flight, its test pilot ... same airspace where Chuck Yeager became the first ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier during a test flight in California ... place in the same historic airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time ...