Chuck Yeager Dies: First Person To Break The Sound Barrier, Subject Of ‘The Right Stuff’ Was 97
Chuck Yeager, a World War II fighter pilot, the first person to break the sound barrier and one of the subjects of Philip Kaufman’s The Right Stuff has died. He was 97.
Yeager’s wife, Victoria, confirmed the death on the pilot’s official Twitter page on Monday, noting that the groundbreaking flyer died just before 9…
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