The man who broke the sound barrier – the man with The Right Stuff – dies at 97

For a time he was the fastest man on earth. He was the first man to travel faster than the speed of sound – about 1,235 kilometres per hour. And he did that in 1947. But Chuck Yeager, the man with “The Right Stuff”, has died at the age of 97. Chuck became one of the world’s most-renowned test pilots after WW2. Yeager tested rockets, experimental crafts and rocket-powered machines. He was a US Air Force officer and test pilot who broke the sound barrier when he tested the X-1 in October 1947. His second wife, Victoria, announced on Twitter that […]
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