Chuck Yeager, Test Pilot Who Broke the Sound Barrier, Is Dead at 97. A World War II fighter ace and Air Force general, he was, according to Tom Wolfe, “the most righteous of all the possessors of the right stuff.” Chuck Yeager in 1948. The previous year, he became the first pilot to break the sound barrier
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