Chuck Yeager



Real name: Charles Elwood Yeager
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Date of birth: February 13, 1923
Place of birth: Myra, West Virginia, USA
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Father: Albert Hal Yeager
Mother: Susie Mae
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Astrology Sign: Aquarius
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Chuck Yeager quotes

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

Most pilots learn, when they... (more Chuck Yeager quotes)

Chuck Yeager trivia

In 1960, Yeager was appointed director of the Space School at Edwards Air Force Base.

Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia, is named after him.

He was the first pilot to break the sound barrier.... (more Chuck Yeager trivia)

Books about Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1: Breaking the Sound Barrier book cover Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1: Breaking the Sound Barrier
by Dominick A. Pisano, F. Robert van der Linden, Frank H. Winter, and Chuck Yeager

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Breaking the Sound Barrier: The Story of Chuck Yeager (Monumental Milestones) (Monumental Milestones: Great Events of Modern Times) book cover Breaking the Sound Barrier: The Story of Chuck Yeager (Monumental Milestones) (Monumental Milestones: Great Events of Modern Times)
by Susan Sales Harkins

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The Importance Of Series - Chuck Yeager (The Importance Of Series) book cover The Importance Of Series - Chuck Yeager (The Importance Of Series)
by Michael Martin

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Chuck Yeager filmography

The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe's book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be...

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Smokey and the Bandit II
It's been a few years since Cletus and the Bandit made their famous 28-hour run to Texas for a few cases of Coors. Bandit is now a washed-up has-been living in the past, until Big Enos and Little Enos make him another offer: Transport a live Elephant across country in 3 days or less. ...

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Flying Without Fear

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