Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The term "legend" suffers from overuse, but how else to describe Chuck Yeager? The retired Air Force brigadier general, who died ...

Chuck Yeager, a World War II fighter ace who was the first human to travel faster than sound and whose gutsy test pilot exploits were immortalized in the bestselling book “The Right Stuff,” died ...

The article reviews "101 Chuck Yeager-isms," a new book that compiles insightful and humorous quotes from legendary pilot Chuck Yeager. The book translates Yeager's high-stakes aviation experiences ...

Last Dec. 7, the greatest aviator in American history ascended into the heavens. On Friday, joined by my family on Air Force Two, it will be my honor to accompany the widow and earthly remains of ...

Frank Borman did not expect to hear a congratulations from Chuck Yeager one day in 1962—and that’s just as well because he didn’t get one. It wasn’t a surprise that Yeager wouldn’t extend much ...

The thing about the sound barrier in the 1940s was that everyone in aviation knew that it was theoretically possible to travel faster than sound. High-powered bullets did it all the time. But whether ...

Legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager—the first man to break the sound barrier and live to tell the tale—died on Monday in Los Angeles. The retired Air Force brigadier general was 97. On October 14, 1947, ...

In history there are people whose legacy becomes larger than life. Ask anyone who built and flew the first airplane, and you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who isn’t at least aware of the ...

Chuck Yeager, a legendary US Air Force pilot widely considered one of the ultimate aviators, passed away on December 7, 2020, at age 97. He famously became the first person to officially break the ...

Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager joined the U.S. Army in September 1941 out of high school to become an enlisted aircraft mechanic. Within seven years, the Myrna, West Virginia, native would become the first ...

Winston Churchill used to advise young people to read “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations,” the oft-updated compilation of brief quotes from just about anyone who said something memorable. Of course, ...

The Bell X-1, a miracle of form and function. Photo-illustration by Cade Martin It was arguably the most important flight since Kitty Hawk, and the plane was a perfection of form and function. Thirty ...