A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Oct. 14, 1947, U.S. Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager became the first test pilot to break the sound barrier as he flew 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.

Yeager climbed into a Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first human being to break the sound barrier in level flight. And he did it with two broken ribs. Charles E. (Chuck) Yeager (1923-2020 ...

Gen. Charles Edwood "Chuck" Yeager, the legendary American test pilot, passed away on December 7, 2020 at age 97, his wife Victoria announced late Monday night. On October 14, 1947, Yeager—a U.S ...

On October 14, 1947, at approximately 10:00 a.m., a four-engine Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber, piloted by Major Robert L. Cardenas, took off from Muroc Air Force Base (now known as ...

A segment from a U.S. Air Force film follows a single flight by then-Major Charles Chuck Yeager. Before Yeager and Air Force test pilots Albert Boyd and H.E. Tom Collins put the MiG-15 through its ...

It was updated by David Slotnick in March 2020 and Talia Lakritz in October 2024. As soon as Chuck Yeager crossed the sound barrier in 1947, commercial aviation companies began planning to take ...

A newly remodeled Chuck E. Cheese restaurant opened this week in Gage Park on Chicago’s Southwest Side, promising all the arcade games, screaming kids and pizza-fueled mayhem that parents have ...

James Curtis Yeager, 74, of Sun City, Arizona, passed away peacefully on October 26, 2024. He is preceded in death by his mother, Muriel Yeager; father, L. Robert Yeager; and brother, L.

Your browser does not support the video element. The lines between reality and fiction have started to blur for Aris Yeager. You may have seen the 24-year-old Belgian ...

On Oct. 14, 1947, Captain Chuck Yeager changed modern aviation when he flew faster than the speed of sound. In one of the most significant advances in modern aviation after the first powered flight in ...