ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - October 14, 1947: U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager became the first pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound - also known as Mach 1. The experimental aircraft called 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 ...

Deep in the Mojave Desert, across the San Gabriel Mountains and 70 miles inland from Los Angeles, lies a strange, unnatural lake. It is eleven miles long and four miles wide, with clearly defined ...

Yeager celebrated the 65th anniversary of his record with another supersonic flight at age 89 The aviation legend would have liked to have gone into space%2C but ...

Children’s Health’s chief legal officer, Amy Yeager, has had a busy couple of years in the C-suite of the nation’s eighth-largest pediatric health system. Her organization celebrated the opening of a ...

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.

Seventy-five years ago, in the clear skies over the California desert, a momentous event in aeronautical history took place. On October 14, 1947, Captain Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager, piloting the Bell X ...

Chuck Yeager rose to fame as an American fighter pilot and aviation pioneer. Born February 13, 1923 in West Virginia, Yeager grew up in a modest family. His love for aviation began when he attended an ...

AVI-8 has revealed its latest timepiece, the Bell X-1 “Glamorous Glennis” Automatic Limited Edition, available in four different iterations, each of which is limited to 150 examples. The watchmaker ...

CHARLESTON — 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 fly ...