{"id":108064,"date":"2020-12-08T00:27:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T05:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=108064"},"modified":"2020-12-08T00:27:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T05:27:48","slug":"chuck-yeager-97-departs-the-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=108064","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Yeager, 97, Departs the Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBrigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager<\/em><\/p>\n

“The Fastest Man Alive” who first broke the sound barrier has passed.<\/p>\n

His wife Victoria Yeager, announced, “It is w\/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET,” she wrote. “An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest Pilot, & a legacy of strength, adventure, & patriotism will be remembered forever.”<\/p>\n

The WWII fighter ace and test pilot is famed for first breaking the sound barrier, Mach 1, over the Mojave desert in 1947.<\/p>\n

‘Right Stuff’ Pilot Legend Chuck Yeager Dies at 97<\/h3>\n

Chuck Yeager, the groundbreaking test pilot with “the right stuff” who first broke the sound barrier, has died at age 97.<\/p>\n

His wife Victoria Yeager, announced the famed pilot’s death on Yeager’s Twitter page.<\/p>\n

“It is w\/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET,” she wrote. “An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest Pilot, & a legacy of strength, adventure, & patriotism will be remembered forever.”<\/p>\n

Yeager was a flying ace in the Air Force during World War II and later set records that included becoming the first to break the sound barrier, in 1947 over the Mojave Desert.<\/p>\n

Much of his test work also contributed to the development of the nation’s space program and he was featured in “The Right Stuff,” the book and film about the first astronauts.<\/p>\n

Victoria Yeager did not specify the cause of her husband’s death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read he rest of the article here: Newsmax<\/a>
\nFair winds and following seas, General. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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