Chuck yeager aircraft person bell x 1 sound october 14 1947

General Charles "Chuck" Yeager

  • Birth

  • Enlistment into the US Army Air Corps.

  • Receives first flight physical

  • Accepted into the "Flying Sergeants Program"

  • Receives pilot wings & appointed flight officer.

  • 357th Squadron completes first Combat Mission

  • Yeager scores his first aerial victory

  • Shot down over Germany

  • After evading Germans for weeks, Yeager finds his way to the American consul

  • Returns to the United States to attend the instructor pilot course

  • Assigned to Muroc Air Base, California

  • First Man To Fly Faster Than The Speed of Sound

  • General Yeager Passes Away