Oct. 20—Last week on Oct. 14, an aviation milestone marked its 74th anniversary. On that very day in 1947, a young man and West Virginia native named Capt. Charles "Chuck" Yeager climbed into a rocket ...

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (WHTM) — On Oct. 14, 1947, Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager climbed into a Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first human being to break the sound barrier in level flight.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — This weekend will mark the celebration of the 76th anniversary of West Virginia native Chuck Yeager’s famous flight over the desert in California when he became the first human to ...

Yeager nicknamed the rocket plane, and all his other aircraft, "Glamorous Glennis" for his first wife, who died in 1990. Yeager's feat was kept top secret for about a year when the world thought the ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Famed pilot, West Virginia native Chuck Yeager, died three years ago Thursday and on the anniversary of his death members of West Virginia’s congressional delegation asked the U.S.

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 ...

Even though he was 20 years older, I grew up with Chuck Yeager. That's because I'm from West Virginia, and students there hear about him as soon as they're old enough to understand how important he ...

OROVILLE — On October 14, 1947, a B-29 bomber carrying an experimental orange, bullet-shaped, rocket-propelled aircraft called the Bell X-1 in its bomb bay, flew 25,000 feet above the Mojave Desert.

Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier in 1947, poses in front of the rocket-powered Bell X-IE plane that he flew at Edwards Air Force Base on Sept. 4, 1985.