Chuck Yeager’s 1947 Flight Inspired Our Supersonic Ambitions
Dec 23, 2020•7 min
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Episode description
Yeager was the prototype of the American hero, a decorated fighter pilot immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff. He died Monday at age 97.
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