If you cruised on Interstate 80 near Madison Avenue in Sacramento back in the early 2000s, you might remember seeing a World War II fighter plane perched by the former Holiday Inn. Now a Wyndham hotel ...

To mark the 76th anniversary of Chuck Yeager’s sound barrier-breaking flight, a vintage fighter plane flew over the newly painted Charles Chuck Yeager Bridge in Charleston Friday afternoon. Gov. Jim ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A P-51 World War II vintage fighter plane soared above the twin spans of the Chuck Yeager Bridge over the Kanawha River Friday afternoon. The flight made several passes as on the ...

The Bell X-1 rocket plane proved that man was capable of breaking the sound barrier. Chuck Yeager, a pilot who was already well known for his skill behind the flight stick of a P-51 Mustang during ...

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 ...

Other Facts: The first supersonic pilot , who has flown more than 200 different types of military aircraft. Trained many of the Gemini, Mercury and Apollo astronauts at the Air Force Aerospace ...

(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 ...