...piloted by Captain Charles ‘Chuck’ Yeager was dropped from underneath a B-29...climbed to 42,000ft and in the thin air Yeager found that his Machmeter, having climbed...Mach 1 in dives prior to this date, so Yeager’s record is officially classed as being...

...SubscribeYou are in: Home › News Article Yeager puts pen to paper for fans A long...Aviation legend General Charles 'Chuck' Yeager, the first man to go supersonic, was...stuff' was coined. Experimental Yeager became the first man officially to break...

...flight 2294 from Nashville to Baltimore-Washington but diverted to Yeager Airport near Charleston, West Virginia. Southwest says it has sent maintenance personnel to Yeager to assess the aircraft and assist the National Transportation Safety...

...weight to cause the 415 to pitch up wildly, requiring near Chuck Yeager-like reflexes to save the day. In reality the aircraft proved...415| Canadair| Cessna| Cessna Caravan| Jeana Yeager Sign up to Flight Digital Magazine Flight Print Magazine...

...300, causing it to depressurise. The aircraft, which was en route from Nashville to Baltimore-Washington, diverted to Yeager airport near Charleston, West Virginia following the 13 July incident. None of the 126 passengers and five crew members was...

...America has ceased operations on 7 April. Low-cost Jet America would have provided interstate and intrastate service from Yeager airport in Charleston starting in 2010.Some investors, however, reneged after low-cost Skybus Airlines ceased operations...

...the turbojets. When recalled, Bridgeman remarked to Chuck Yeager, who was "flying chase" in an F-86, "This thing doesn...air." He touched down at well over 200 m.p.h. It was Yeager who virtually guided Bridgeman in for his landing, for view...

...and teens take their first flight through the program each year. He took over the role in 2004 from legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager. Pelton will continue to chair the Gathering of Eagles committee at least through July 2009, as well as the Oshkosh-based...

...on a flight from Nashville to Baltimore on 13 July. The crew of Flight 2294 declared an emergency and safely landed at the Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia, where the aircraft is currently undergoing repairs by Southwest mechanics. Although...

...Comment: the need for speed Sixty years ago this week Chuck Yeager in a Bell X-1 dropped from the belly of a Boeing B-29...speed has made most of the really big aviation news since Yeager's breakthrough flight. That's no surprise. People...

...made a household name of its pilot, like the X-1's Chuck Yeager and the X-15's Scott Crossfield. But Muellner, for...this story: Bell X-1| British Aerospace| Jeana Yeager| Dassault Rafale Sign up to Flight Digital Magazine...

...Where else are you going to be able to go 300mph and pretend that you’re Chuck Yeager?” he says. Links posted in this story: Jeana Yeager Sign up to Flight Digital Magazine Flight Print Magazine Airline Business Magazine...

...opportunistic moves, the US majors will not be adding much new service, believes Rick Atkinson, director of West Virginia's Yeager Airport. "There won't be capacity additions for the smaller regional airports this year," he said. "Their planning horizon...

...fighter, the JSF - but history is littered with other, failed, efforts It has been more than half a century since Chuck Yeager rocketed through the sound barrier and almost 40 years since the Hawker P1127, forerunner to the Harrier, first lifted off...

...the rules defined by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), which has been held since 1986 by Rutan and Jeanna Yeager flying Global Flyer's predecessor, the twin-engined 'Voyager'. The flight is expected to last 75-80h and was launched...

...their families. Tomorrow it will be Tokyo... Supersonic flight has been a holy grail for civil aviation ever since Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. But only the Anglo-French Concorde and Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 made it into service - and the...