On Oct. 14, 1947, Air Force pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier — or so history tells us. According to a new book, World War II hero and civilian test pilot ...

Chuck Yeager, the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound has died. He was 97. ... "In 1947, Yeager broke the sound barrier and proved that we can always keep pushing further and faster." ...

Editor’s note: This story was written for and appeared in The Register-Herald’s 2019 "Molded by the Mountains” specialty publication.

After test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first man to break the sound barrier, he confessed to the highly un-Yeager-like emotion of fear. “I was scared,” he wrote in a memoir, ...

Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager smiles to the crowd during the Veterans Day parade in Sacramento, Calif. Friday Nov. 11, 2011. Yeager, who was the first man to break the sound barrier ...

Breaking the Sound Barrier Here is how he broke the sound barrier. Bell XS-1 was a high-speed high-altitude research plane powered by a 6,000 pounds thrust rocket engine.

In 1962, U.S. Air Force Col. Charles "Chuck" Yeager holds a model of the Bell X-1 aircraft he flew in 1947 to become the first person to break the sound barrier. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ...

Chuck Yeager, the steely “Right Stuff” test pilot who took aviation to the doorstep of space by becoming the first person to break the sound barrier, died on Monday at the age of 97. “It is ...

Chuck Yeager, the first human to travel so fast that it broke the sound barrier, died Monday at 97. Being a youth born in the 1920s and growing up as an avid hunter, Yeager probably never intended ...

Skydiver launched in attempt to break sound barrier. October 14, 2012 / 1:49 PM EDT / AP Last Updated 1:49 p.m. ET. ROSWELL, ...

Who broke the sound barrier? Was it really Chuck Yeager? Or did George Welch beat him to it? If so, it happened on this day in 1947. Tony Reichhardt . October 1, 2009. Get our newsletter!

Chuck Yeager, the historic test pilot portrayed in the movie “The Right Stuff,” is dead at the age of 97, according to a tweet posted on his account late Monday. "It is w/ profound sorrow, I ...