After his test pilot heyday, Yeager commanded fighter squadrons and flew combat missions during the Vietnam War. In the early s, he was in charge of astronaut-style training for Air Force personnel but that program ended when the U. Yeager reached the rank of brigadier general and in he marked the 50th anniversary of his historic flight by taking an F past the speed of sound.
He then announced that it was his last military flight. Yeager became something of a social media sensation in at age 93 when he began fielding questions from the public on Twitter and responding in a curt and sometimes curmudgeonly manner. When asked what he thought about the moon, he replied, "It's there. Yeager and Glennis, who died of cancer in , had four children. He married Victoria Scott D'Angelo in Skip Navigation. Key Points. Chuck Yeager during a press conference at Edwards Air Force Base during the 50th anniversary celebration of his October 14, Bell X-1 flight, in which he became the first man to break the sound barrier.
The stakes were mortal, the whole exercise was madness, but that was what made it worth doing. Never mind that he flew a total of different kinds of planes in his life; never mind that he not only broke the sound barrier the first time but many times after, at much higher speeds.
It was practice; it was work; it was nothing more. Yeager used lots of airplanes the next day over the course of his near-century-long life. And he taught uncounted other pilots to do the same. Write to Jeffrey Kluger at jeffrey. Chuck Yeager during a press conference at Edwards Air Force Base during the 50th anniversary celebration of his October 14, Bell X-1 flight, in which he became the first man to break the sound barrier.
By Jeffrey Kluger. Yeager's adventures were chronicled in numerous formats, including Tom Wolfe's book "The Right Stuff," which inspired a Hollywood film and a new Disney Plus series that both share the same name. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine released a statement concerning Yeager's passing on the agency's website , and also posted on Twitter.
Related: Breaking the sound barrier: The greatest moments in flight. Today's passing of Gen. Chuck Yeager is a tremendous loss to our nation.
His pioneering and innovative spirit advanced America's abilities in the sky and set our nation's dreams soaring into the jet age and the space age. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done. Yeager's death also caught the attention of senior space people around the world, including the Canadian Space Agency's Gilles Leclerc, the agency's director-general of space exploration.
The secret to my success was that somehow I always managed to live to fly another day. Within the United States, Yeager's life caused reflections among numerous space and aviation agencies and institutions. John "Jay" Raymond, the chief of space operations of the newly created Space Force , paid tribute to Yeager, along with the U. World War II ace. Aviation pioneer. A giant within the Air Force. Join us in celebrating the extraordinary life and mourning the loss of Brig. Chuck Yeager. May he rest in peace and his legacy live on forever.
We mourn the passing and celebrate the life and legacy of a pilot who truly had the right stuff, General Chuck Yeager. In , Yeager broke the sound barrier and proved that we can always keep pushing further and faster. General Yeager pushed boundaries and made the impossible possible. His legacy inspires us to continue looking beyond the horizon.
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