Chuck Yeager
Charles E. Yeager was born on February 13, 1923 in Myra, West Virginia and raised the nearby village of Hamlin for the first eighteen years of his life. His father drilled natural gas, and his mother was a housewife. At an early age, Chuck helped his father drill, and learned mechanics from his father. Chuck was always fixing the car engines or the drill engine if it broke. In high school Chuck played basketball and baseball, although he never really excelled in either. He also was not that smart in school. He said the only thing that he was good at was typing and math, everything else, he got a D in. After high school, Chuck, being poorly educated and destitute decided to join the U.S. Army Air Corps. The funny thing about that is that Chuck never even saw an airplane on the ground until he was 16 years old, when it had an emergency and landed in a cornfield, and Chuck was not even impressed with it. He said the reason that he joined the Air Corps is because the recruiter made the Air Corps sound more interesting that the Navy recruiter. Anyway, Chuck joined the Air Corps as a mechanic. After a year of being a mechanic, the Untied States was short pilots, so they put up a notice to see if
It was always hard for Chuck to fit in among the other pilots and mechanics. After 3 months it was done, and Chuck’s name was in the record book. However after ten years, the school closed when NASA took over. He got picked to fly the jet propelled X-1 to break the sound barrier. Here is Chuck Yeager a “hick” from West Virginia getting the best assignment. With the X-1A he almost “bought the farm”(and expression used instead of crashing). On that day, Yeager became and Ace shooting down 5 on his own, (the first 2 he did not fire a shot, a plane rammed into another). All German planes were shot down and only half of the American planes were shot down. However, instead of getting mad, he got help for Chuck. Within a couple of hours, Chuck had the help of the French Maquis, a French resistance group. You can imagine the jealousy going around the test pilots. He was disappointed at first because after 6 missions, they hadn’t seen one German. One day, they found a cabin and rested. In 1970, General Yeager served as U. He retired from the Air Force in 1975, but continued to serve as a consulting test pilot for many years.
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