Chuck Yeager 1923–2020

Notes

Charles Elwood Yeager was born on 13 February 1923 and died on 7 December 2020. Charles Elwood Yeager is the alias already on this Echo, and the years read 1923–2020. The summary names a test pilot who was the first confirmed to exceed the speed of sound in level flight. The English Wikipedia introduction checked for this package places that flight in October 1947 and calls him the first pilot confirmed to have done it in level flight. This note keeps the month and the year, and does not add a day the introduction did not give. It does not add a field, a base, or a combat tally. The Bell X-1 article and the museum object page are linked as further reading on the aircraft associated with flight past the speed of sound. The sentence about October 1947 rests on the biographical introduction, not on a guess. This research sheet is the page reached by chuckyeager.si.

External reading:

• Chuck Yeager — Wikipedia
• Bell X-1 — Wikipedia
• Bell X-1 — National Air and Space Museum