Retired general Charles Chuck Yeager, better known as a first man who broke the sound barrier has passed away on Monday, in age 98, his wife Victoria has announced this news on a Twitter.
1947. general Chuck, during the rehearsal flight of the jet plane, broken the sound barrier. 65 years later, more precisely 2012. he tried to do the same on the F-15 Eagle plane.
(The New York Times)
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