Biography: Brigadier General Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager

Titles. 07:07:58 Stills of Wright Brothers, Yeager plane, other fighter jets. Main title. 07:08:20 Stills of Yeager w/ pistol. Early WWII pilots & planes. Still of 1943 Yeager graduation; planes; P-39 Cobra fighter. Crash site on ground. P-51 Mustang w/ Yeager. GSAP footage shooting down various size planes. CU instruments. Various officers who set up test pilots setting up X-1 program & flyers involved. 07:09:50 Various fighter planes in flight, on runway tarmac. 07:10:51 Yeager beside X-1; in bomber & X-1 dropped. LS of X-1 contrail; X-1 rolling. Jet fighters in flight. Yeager painting Mach 2.5 on X-1 plane fuselage 07:11:33 Color, X-1A inflight; POV spinning out of control tumbling. Landing. Various stills of Yeager on ground, flight report log; into plane. 07:12:32 Air Force test pilot school class. Fighter bomber over Vietnam. Still General Yeager. 1975 retirement stills. In cockpits; Yeager out of cockpit. End. Test Flights; Aviation History; Air Force Celebrity; NOTE: 14Oct47 Yeager breaks sound barrier.