Oct. 20—Last week on Oct. 14, an aviation milestone marked its 74th anniversary. On that very day in 1947, a young man and West Virginia native named Capt. Charles "Chuck" Yeager climbed into a rocket ...

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (WHTM) — On Oct. 14, 1947, Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager climbed into a Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first human being to break the sound barrier in level flight.

AVI-8 has revealed its latest timepiece, the Bell X-1 “Glamorous Glennis” Automatic Limited Edition, available in four different iterations, each of which is limited to 150 examples. The watchmaker ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — This weekend will mark the celebration of the 76th anniversary of West Virginia native Chuck Yeager’s famous flight over the desert in California when he became the first human to ...

On Oct. 14, 1947, an aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time, a milestone some had thought would never be reached. The First Bell X-1, "Glamorous Glennis" which broke the sound barrier ...

On Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time! Yeager was a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force who made history by flying an aircraft faster than the speed of sound. He made ...

(Reuters) - Chuck Yeager, the steely "Right Stuff" test pilot who took aviation to the doorstep of space by becoming the first person to break the sound barrier more than 70 years ago, died on Monday ...