Chuck Yeager gets into the back seat of a F-15 prior to reenacting his famous flight 65 years earlier in which he broke the sound barrier. Wife of test pilot Chuck Yeager dead at 66 ( 0 ) TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Glennis Yeager, the wife of famed test pilot Chuck Yeager, has died after a six-year battle with cancer. Obituary of Charles "Chuck" Yeager. Yeager further observes that Dwight worked hard, as did his tutors, but adds that ‘Dwight just couldn’t hack it. . Read Full Description. Chuck was born in Morgantown on January 16, 1941, a son of the late Marshall and Thelma Yeager. didn’t keep up in flying.’ Yeager claims to have worked with Dwight on his flying, but he noted that ‘our students were flying at levels really beyond his experience. On Oct. 14, 1947, Captain Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. .
Charles Lee “Chuck” Yeager, age 78, of Petersburg, WV, Passed away Saturday, April 27, 2019 at WVU Medicine with his family by his side.
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat is a classic modern air combat simulation that set new standard for the genre at the time of its release. Sixty-five years later in 2012, retired Brig. Chuck Yeager, byname of Charles Elwood Yeager, (born February 13, 1923, Myra, West Virginia, U.S.), American test pilot and U.S. Air Force officer who was the first man to exceed the speed of sound in flight. Here's a look at the life of Chuck Yeager…