The F-104 Starfighter was not built for dogfights. In fact, Lockheed’s designers purposely sacrificed maneuverability for ...

And fly a quiet supersonic flight,” said Bahm. “No one has ever done that aspect before.” At least, not yet. After years of ...

Chuck Yeager, the famous pilot broke the sound barrier, also was a hero in the second World War. Flying his P-51 Mustang, Glamorous Glenn, he downed an astounding five German Bf-109s in a single ...

Chuck Yeager, the legendary pilot and retired Air Force brigadier general who broke the sound barrier in 1947, has died By Jared Keller Updated on Dec 8, 2020 Chuck Yeager, the legendary pilot and ...

On October 14, 1947, US Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 experimental plane at Mach 1 some 40,000 feet over the Mojave Desert, becoming the first human to travel faster than the speed ...

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In 1947, Chuck Yeager was a Captain with the United States Air Force assigned as a test pilot to the X-1 program. On October 14, 1947, he became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.

Chuck Yeager Flies the MiG-15 A segment from a U.S. Air Force film follows a single flight by then-Major Charles Chuck Yeager. Before Yeager and Air Force test pilots Albert Boyd and H.E. Tom ...

Last month in the skies above Mojave Air & Space Port in California—the same hallowed airspace where U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager first eclipsed the sound barrier in a Bell X-1 in 1947—Boom ...

The sound barrier was broken for the first time in 1947, when Air Force pilot Capt. Chuck Yeager flew a rocket-propelled experimental aircraft across the Mojave Desert -- taking off from the ...

It should be noted, however, that Chuck Yeager, the famed test pilot who became the first man to break the sound barrier in 1947, loved the F-104 for its sheer power and speed. Before denigrating ...