2020 Chuck Yeager, the legendary pilot and retired Air Force brigadier general who broke the sound barrier in 1947, has died. He was 97 years old. Yeager’s wife Victoria announced his death on ...

Chuck Yeager is an anachronism in the realm of Air ... the General decided to stay in the Air Force. Since his wife was expecting their first child, it made sense to be stationed closer to the ...

Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 experimental plane at ... when the X-1 - nicknamed "Glamorous Glennis" after Yeager's wife - was ready to fly into the "ugh-known," as Yeager and others called it.