Chuck Yeager

by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 12, 1944, First Lieutenant Charles Elwood Yeager, Air Corps, Army of the United States (A.U.S.), shot down five Bf 109s in one sortie becoming “ace […]

We got your attention.  We truly wish somebody would try to rebuild Chuck Yeager’s mighty Bell X-1, perhaps it’s asking too much… The San Diego Air & Space Museum has hung  a BELL X-1 replica […]

It was March 4, 1944 during the first  daylight raid escorting bombers over Berlin that Chuck Yeager,  flying  his P-51 ‘Glamorous Glenn’ shot down his first  enemy aircraft. Chuck Yeager shot down a Messerschmidt Me […]