West Virginia native and record setting test pilot, Chuck Yeager, is dead at the age of 97. He was the first man to break the sound barrier, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Yeager was born in Myra, West Virginia, in 1923.
West Virginia native and record setting test pilot, Chuck Yeager, is dead at the age of 97. He was the first man to break the sound barrier, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Yeager was born in Myra, West Virginia, in 1923.