1. Charles “Chuck” Yeager By, Matthew C. This power point will be on Charles or “Chuck Yeager.

2. “Chuck” Charles Elwood Yeager was born in Myra,West Virginia. After high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force in 1941 and served as a flight officer

3. “Chuck” Charles was chosen from many volunteers to test fly the secret. Yeager Continued to do test flights. Chuck in flight school during War War II.

4. On December 12, 1953, in an X-1A rocket plane, he set a world speed record of 1650 mph. In 1954, Yeager left his post as assistant chief of test-flight operations to join the staff of the Twelfth Air Force in West Germany.