YEAGER, CHUCK

(Charles Elwood Yeager), 1923–, American aviator. A fighter pilot during World War II, he was a test pilot during the early postwar years. Among other records, he was the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound (1947) and set a world speed record of 1,650 mph (1953). His obvious bravery, technical skill, and unaffected manner have made him the quintessential American hero. He wrote his autobiography, Yeager (with Leo Janos, 1985).

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books on: Yeager Chuck  - 84 results

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Promotional Feats: The Role of Planned Events in the Marketing Communications Mix
Book by Eric J. Soares; Quorum Books, 1991
Subjects: Sales Promotion, Special Events
...Right Stuff , 46 - 47 World Health Organization, 4 Worthington, Cal, as icon, 182 -85 Wyden, Ron, 127 Yeager, Chuck, 47 , 173 Yeager, Jeana, 51 , 52 Yuban coffee, 99 , 100 Ziglar, Zig, 182 ; Zig Ziglars Secrets of Closing the Sale...
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Holy Blood: An Inside View of the Afghan War
Book by Paul Overby; Praeger, 1993
Subjects: Afghanistan--History--Soviet Occupation, 1979-1989--Personal Narratives, Overby, Paul--Travel--Afghanistan
...Schuster, 1985. Yardley, Michael. T.E. Lawrence: A Biography . New York: Stein and Day, 1985. Yeager, Chuck and Leo Janos. Yeager . New York: Bantam, 1985. Yousaf, Mohammad. Silent Soldier: The Man Behind the Afghan Jehad . Lahore...
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A Brief History of Flight: From Balloons to Mach 3 and beyond
Book by T. A. Heppenheimer; Wiley, 2001
Subjects: Aeronautics--History
...191 , 192 , 194 96, 200 202 YB-35 bombers, 278 79, 280 , 284 YB-49 bombers, 279 , 282 , 284 , 295 Yeager, Chuck, 286 302 Yeager, Jeana, 389 , 394 , 400 404 YF-12A interceptor, 333 34 Yorktown, USS, 102 , 191 , 193 , 194 , 197 Zand...
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Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly over the Edge
Book by Ed Regis; PerseusBooks, 1990
Subjects: Engineering--Miscellanea, Forecasting--Miscellanea, Science--Miscellanea
...46 The World of Null-A Van Vogt , 156 Wowk, Brian, 128 -31 Wozniak, Stephen, 12 , 14 Xerox PARC, 112 Yeager, Chuck, 20 Yeager, Jeana, 40 Zero to Eighty Northrup , 66 Zinn, Jack, 97 Zipoy, David, 251
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Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon
Book by Colin Burgess, Kate Doolan, Bert Vis; University of Nebraska Press, 2003
Subjects: Astronauts--Death, Astronauts--Soviet Union--Biography, Astronauts--United States--Biography, Space Flight To The Moon--History
...Arizona Press, 1993.Wolfe, Tom. The Right Stuff. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979.Yeager, Chuck, and Leo Janos. Yeager: An Autobiography. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985.Zimmerman, Robert. Genesis: The Story of Apollo...
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journal articles on: Yeager Chuck  - 24 results

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Tom Wolfe's American Ubermensch: I Am Charlotte Simmons and the Rhetoric of "Manly Courage"
Journal article by Ty Hawkins; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 43, 2007
Subjects: Authors--Works, I Am Charlotte Simmons (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Masculinity--Portrayals, Wolfe, Tom--Works, Writers--Works
...well as its embodiment--one Chuck Yeager. Wolfe characterizes...Air Force Capt. Charles E. Yeager embodies the right stuff. Chuck Yeager is a hero of the Second World...flying culture; that is, Yeager creates this cultures aesthetic...artist. As Wolfe writes, Yeagers West Virginian drawl becomes...
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The Right Stuff at the Wrong Time: the Space of Nostalgia in the Conservative Ascendancy
Journal article by James Scott; Film & History, Vol. 40, 2010
Subjects: Appropriate technology, Automobiles, Conservatism, Entrepreneurs, Motion pictures, Nominations, Nostalgia, Politics, Space shuttle
...suggested by the way he enshrines Chuck Yeager as the films iconic hero. Yeager, a World War II fighter ace...radically new design. Although Yeager looms large in Tom Wolfes book...film. But Kaufman restored Yeager to the revised script, adding...image was enhanced not only by Yeagers postwar ties to Californias...
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Wakes of War: Contrails and the Rise of Air Power, 1918-1945 Part II-The Air War over Europe, 1939-1945
Journal article by Ronald R. Baucom; Air Power History, Vol. 54, 2007
Subjects: Air warfare--History, Airplanes, Military--History, Europe--Military aspects, Military airplanes--History, World War II, 1939-1945
...memoirs. For example, Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager claimed that he and his wing man...print .html. (66.) Charles E. Chuck Yeager with Leo Janos, Yeager...see First and Last, pp. 21, 54. Chuck Yeager stressed his hunting background...
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Beyond Emotional Intelligence: the Eq Matrix as a Leadership Imperative
Journal article by Robert W. Service, Michael J. Fekula; Business Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 3, 2008
Subjects: Dynamic programming, Emotional intelligence, Leadership, Matrix, Personality traits, Studies
...In his autobiography, General Chuck Yeager tells about a dogfight with German...over two hundred of them . . ." and Yeager heard a fellow pilot call, "Hey...Come on up and have some fun" (Yeager Janos, 1985, pp. 66 68). That...
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Contrails over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base
Journal article by R. Ray Ortensie; Air Power History, Vol. 56, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Contrails over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...broken, and men with boyhood dreams--Yeager, Crossfield, Anders, White, Marrett...in December with Class 64A. Colonel Chuck Yeager served as commandant and had changed...Pilot School, commonly referred to as "Yeagers Charm School." Following graduation...
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magazine articles on: Yeager Chuck  - 54 results

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The Right Stuff in the Wrong Place
Magazine article by Edward C. Ingraham; Washington Monthly, Vol. 17, October 1985
Subjects: Air pilots--Biography, Yeager, Chuck--Biography
...us know by now about Chuck Yeager: World War II ace...selling autobiography. Yeagers autobiography understandably...and what I saw of Yeager left me no doubt that...the 47-year-old Yeager from the cockpits in...wasnt made easier by Yeagers obvious lack of enthusiasm...
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The Last Hero Pilot
Magazine article by Frank Vizard; Popular Science, Vol. 252, January 1998
Subjects: Anniversaries, Aviation, History, Personal profiles, Pilots, Records & achievements, Supersonic airplanes, Velocity, Yeager, Chuck
...Vizard Fifty years ago, aviator Chuck Yeager was the first to break...became the first man to do so. Yeager, a spry 74 years old, is...the diminutive X-1 flown by Yeager on October 14, 1947. As on that day, Yeager is accompanied by Bob Hoover...Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. Yeagers story is now the stuff of myth...
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Round Trip a Mysterious Fuel Loss, a GPS Snafu, Dehydration, Crushing Fatigue--it's All Here in Our Inside Story of Steve Fossett's Record-breaking Solo Flight around the World
Magazine article by Eric Adams; Popular Science, Vol. 266, June 2005
...charisma of Charles Lindbergh, the quiet confidence of Chuck Yeager or the steely determination of his most recent predecessor...grueling nine-day ordeal, with co-pilot Jeana Yeager (no relation to Chuck) mostly managing fuel. So Fossett doesnt quite...
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The Right Stuff
Magazine article by Anthony Reveaux; American Cinematographer, Vol. 64, November 1983
...least two scripts: The tale of Machbusting Chuck Yeager, our first aerospace Samurai...producers was enough to win full support. Chuck Yeager himself signed on as a flying technical...another take. First assistant director Chuck Myers: "Twenty years ago that would be...
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The Game of Influence: Understanding the Hidden Dynamics of Communication
Magazine article by David A. Brenders; Skeptic, Vol. 7, 1999
...example, legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager used this principle...him, still meandering. So Yeager did a very unYeager-like...down!" The change in tone-Yeager yelling!-penetrated the...skull. My God! The fabled Yeager! Hes yelling-Yeagers yelling-to me for help...
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newspaper articles on: Yeager Chuck  - 40 results

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Racing: Valentine's Day Sweet for Yeager
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), January 17, 1999
Subjects: Yeager, Chuck
...trainer. "The plan for Colonel Yeager is to go to Punchestown on...named the horse after Colonel Chuck Yeager - the American air force test...running at Cheltenham." Colonel Yeager lost nothing in defeat when...extended his interest to Colonel Yeagers full sister who he has named...
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Creed's Stapp Booked
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 22, 2007
Subjects: Stapp, Scott, Winehouse, Amy
...Potomac." Right stuff for Paris Chuck Yeager says Paris Hilton has learned her...Alaska, salmon fishing," Mr. Yeager told the Charleston (W.Va...Paris Hiltons grandfather." Mr. Yeager - a retired Air Force general - was...
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BIG BANG; 60 YEARS AGO A SONIC BOOM SIGNALLED ARRIVAL OF SUPERSONIC FLIGHT Concorde Captain Tells of Thrills and Spills at Twice Speed of Sound and of His Love for a Unique Plane
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), October 8, 2007
Subjects: Air France S.A., Airlines
...Sixty years ago this week, US Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first man to fly faster than 760mph - breaking...at the National Museum of Flight; HIGH FLYERS: Chuck Yeager with a model of the Bell X-1 and Andy with his grandson...
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Any Questions: The Private Life of a Local Artist
Newspaper article by Keith Draper; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), July 28, 1999
...It was a rocket-engined plane piloted by Charles Chuck Yeager. The British equivalent, two and a half years ahead...later known as the X1). The pilot was Charles (Chuck) Yeager, with the recorded speed of 670mph (1,078 km/hour...
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COMMENT & ANALYSIS: OBITUARY - Scott Crossfield
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), May 4, 2006
...Field, California. There, over the Mojave Desert, Chuck Yeager was the big man, who had broken the sound-barrier...The rivalry was heightened in December, 1953, when Yeager broke Crossfields record. In 1955, Crossfield joined...
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encyclopedia articles on: Yeager Chuck  - 3 results

 
 
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Yeager, Chuck
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
YEAGER, CHUCK (Charles Elwood Yeager), 1923 , American aviator. A fighter pilot during World War...the quintessential American hero. He wrote his autobiography, Yeager (with Leo Janos, 1985...
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Shepard, Sam
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...involved in motion pictures, Shepard wrote the screenplays for The Right Stuff (1983), in which he played the part of Chuck Yeager , and Paris, Texas (1984); wrote and directed Far North (1989) and Silent Tongue (1994); and has acted in a...
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Aerodynamics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...conquered through the use of swept-back wings and the moving of critical control surfaces out of the waves direct path. Chuck Yeager , in 1947, was the first to fly at sustained supersonic speed. Other troublesome phenomena associated with supersonic...


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