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BELL XS-1 FLIGHT #52 October 27, 1947 USAF TEST PILOT Chuck Yeager
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From the sellerXS-1 #52 October 27, 1947 Chuck Yeager 46-062 USAF 10 Power failure. Rocket didn't fire. Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager (/'je?g?r/ YAY-g?r, February 13, 1923 – December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight. Yeager was raised in Hamlin, West Virginia. His career began in World War II as a private in the United States Army, assigned to the Army Air Forces in 1941.
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