![]() ![]() Yeager experienced his first flying accident when his Airacobra’s supercharger exploded and he bailed out of the aircraft, striking the tail of the aircraft during his bailout. Following flight school, he was assigned to a P-39 Airacobra unit. During his first flight he became airsick, but in 1942, determined to fly, he was enrolled in flight school. He began as an enlisted crew chief in charge of aircraft maintenance on a Beech AT-11 trainer. ![]() ![]() As a boy, he was remembered as being naturally smart and unusually tough.Ĭhuck Yeager joined the Army Air Corps after graduating from high school in 1941. Raised in a rural setting, Yeager learned to hunt and became a skilled rifleman and experienced outdoorsman. In 1986, Yeager even drove the pace car for the Indy 500. Yeager appeared in a cameo as an anonymous character in the 1983 film alongside actor Sam Shepard, who played Chuck Yeager in the film. He was celebrated in the 1979 book The Right Stuff, by author Tom Wolfe and the popular 1983 Hollywood feature film of the same name, directed by Philip Kaufman. He was featured in AC Delco ads and employed by the Air Force in public affairs campaigns. Yeager cast the mold for the daring test pilot image. ![]()
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