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Why did Chuck Yeager get to fly the plane that broke the sound barrier?
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Chuck Yeager had been an Army Air Corps "Ace" fighter pilot, including becoming an "ace in a day" by destroying five German aircraft during WWII- in one day! One of his "kills" was one of the first German ME-262 jet fighters.
Because Yeager had been an evadee in World War II, he got his pick of bases in the US after the war. He chose the closest to his home - Wright Patterson in Ohio, not far from West Virginia. That was where flight test was in 1945.
Chuck was a maintenance officer there, and due to his background helping his father drill gas wells, he understood the systems in the X-1. As a maintenance officer, he flew more airplanes than anyone else. He also flew in air shows. Col. Boyd said that he was the best.
General Yeager, born February 13, 1923, lives with his second wife (his first died in 1990) and continues to fly jets, P-51s, and light planes.
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The Bell X-1 was Chuck Yeager's ride for his record-breaking flight. A link can be found below.
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Breaking the sound barrier in the X-1 rocket plane.
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the legendary Mr. Chuck Yeager.
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Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947 in the Bell X-1, dubbed "Glamorous Glennis".
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Chuck Yeager was the first pilot to break the sound barrier. The plane was designed by Benson Hamlin. The name of the plane is the X-1
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Chuck Yeager became the first human to officially break the sound barrier, on 14 October 1947 in the Bell X-1. He reached a speed of at Mach 1 at an altitude of 13,700 metres.
Chuck yeager's plane was called the?
Yeager named the Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis" in horo of his wife Glennis Yeager.
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The one named after his wife.
