On October 14, 1947, a small rocket plane sat waiting over the desert at Muroc Army Air Field. Engineers believed it was ...

The X-1’s fuselage was designed to resemble a .50 caliber bullet—one of the only shapes known to have stable flight at ...

Last Sunday Lynnda and I attended the Christmas Luncheon at the West Virginia Radio and TV Museum and Hall of Fame at Huntington. One of the presenters mentioned, “One of my claims to fame is, I was ...

On Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time! Yeager was a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force who made history by flying an aircraft faster than the speed of sound. He made ...

Everyone knows Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, but few know his incredible WWII survival story that almost kept him ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Senate Floor Senator Joe Manchin spoke on the Senate floor in honor of General Charles “Chuck” Yeager’s 90th birthday. What are some details of Chuck ...

(Reuters) - 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 more than 70 years ago, died on Monday ...

CLARK AB, R.P. — Col. Charles E. (Chuck) Yeager, first pilot to crash the sound barrier, says that in spite of safety precautions there will eventually be a major accident in America's space program ...

Twentieth Century Fox has signed John Moore to helm the bigscreen version of the life story of Gen. Chuck Yeager. “Yeager,” which follows the pilot’s exploits from his roots in West Virginia through ...

On Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time! Yeager was a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force who made history by flying an aircraft faster than the speed of sound. He made ...