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Chuck Yeager
Charles Elwood Yeager (/ˈjeɪɡər/ YAY-gər; born February 13, 1923) is a
retired United
States Air Force officer, flying ace, and
record-setting test pilot.
In 1947, he became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded
the speed of
sound in level flight.
Yeager's career began in World War II as
a private in
the United States Army Air Forces in 1941.[a] After serving as an aircraft mechanic, in September 1942 he
entered enlisted pilot
training and upon graduation was promoted to the rank of flight officer (the
World War II USAAF equivalent to warrant officer), later achieving most of his aerial
victories as a P-51 fighter pilot on
the Western Front, where he shot down over 11 enemy aircraft.
After the war, Yeager became a test pilot of many types
of aircraft, including experimental rocket-powered aircraft. As the first human
to officially break the sound barrier, on October
14, 1947, he flew the experimental Bell X-1 at Mach 1 and an altitude
of 45,000 feet (13,700 m), for which he won both the Collier and Mackay trophies in
1948. He then went on to break several other speed and altitude records.
Yeager later commanded fighter squadrons and wings in Germany, as well as in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. In recognition of the outstanding performance ratings of those units, he was promoted to brigadier general in 1969, retiring on March 1, 1975. Yeager's three war active duty flying career spans more than 30 years and has taken him to many parts of the world, including the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War.
World War II
Yeager enlisted as a
private in the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) on September 12, 1941, and
became an aircraft mechanic at George
Air Force Base, Victorville,
California. At enlistment, Yeager was not eligible for flight
training because of his age and educational background, but the entry of the
U.S. into World War II less than three months later prompted the USAAF to alter
its recruiting standards. Having unusually sharp vision (a visual acuity rated 20/10),
which once enabled him to shoot a deer at 600 yards (550 m),[11] Yeager
displayed natural talent as a pilot and was accepted for flight training.
At the time of his
flight training acceptance, he was a crew chief on an AT-11.[12] He
received his pilot wings and a promotion to flight officer at Luke
Field, Arizona,
where he graduated from Class 43C on March 10, 1943. Assigned to the 357th
Fighter Group at Tonopah, Nevada, he
initially trained as a fighter pilot, flying Bell
P-39 Airacobras (being grounded for seven days for clipping a
farmer's tree during a training flight),[13] and
shipped overseas with the group on November 23, 1943.
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