Chuck Yeager dies at 97

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Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier, has died at 97.

 

He became a national celebrity thanks to “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe.

 

Monday, December 7, 2020 11:18 PM EST

His signal achievement came on Oct. 14, 1947, when he climbed out of a B-29 bomber as it ascended over California’s Mojave Desert from what was then known as Muroc Air Force Base, and entered the cockpit of an orange, bullet-shaped, rocket-powered experimental plane attached to the bomb bay.

An Air Force captain at the time, he zoomed off in the plane, a Bell Aircraft X-1, at an altitude of 23,000 feet, and when he reached about 43,000 feet above the desert, history’s first sonic boom reverberated across the floor of the dry lake beds. He had reached a speed of 700 miles an hour, breaking the sound barrier and dispelling the long-held fear that any plane flying at or beyond the speed of sound would be torn apart by shock waves.

 

Chuck Yeager, Test Pilot Who Broke the Sound Barrier, Is Dead at 97 https://nyti.ms/3m1xZ9u 

 

 

 

 

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I probably be the first one die by going faster than speed of light. Dying by going faster than speed of light.