Charles Elwood «Chuck» Yeager, born in Myra, West Virginia on February 13th, 1923 started its last flight on August 7, 2020, rest in peace.
«Chuck» Yeager and Bud Andersen were stationed in the Mont Blanc Mountains/Savoy Alps area at the beginning of 1945. They flew patrol in that region; out of boredom they discharged additional tanks, did aileron rolls and shot at them. Hits to the tanks caused them to explode into a giant fireball. They flew from Evian, France towards Montreux, Switzerland, via the Lake of Geneva. From there, they flew at low altitude over Geneva and back to France, at a speed so fast that the Swiss Air Force didn’t notice them until they were out of the country. Yeager stayed in the Air Force after the War and became a test pilot. He was chosen among other pilots like Bob Hoover to fly the missile-driven airplane Bell X-1, within the scope of a research program. Yeager gave the experimental airplane the nickname «Glamorous Glennis», after his wife, Glennis. On October 14th, 1947, Yeager managed to break the sound barrier at an altitude of 13,100 meters (43,000 feet). At temperature- and air pressure conditions where the speed of sound is 1060 km/hr, he reached a speed of 1125 km/hr, or Mach 1.06.
