Chuck yeager children
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Donald L. Mallick
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XB-70 pilots Fitz Fulton & Don Mallick
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Don Mallick with LLRV (Lunar Lander Research Vehicle)
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Mallick with the Lockheed YF-12
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The Smell of Kerosene
Donald Mallick was born in Sewickley, Pa., on October 4, 1930. In 1957 he graduated with honors from the University of Florida. Mallick served as a pilot in the US Navy after two years of undergraduate work at Penn State. Mallick first joined NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1957, at the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory (later re-designated Langley Research Center), Hampton, VA, as a research pilot. During that period Mallick participated in numerous VSTOL (Very Short Take Off and Landing) type research programs, including the VERTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) VZ-2 aircraft.
He transferred to the Flight Research Center in 1963, remaining there until April 3, 1987. During the mid-1960s Mallick was the chief project pilot on NASA's Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV). The L
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Chuck Yeager
(1923-2020)
Who Was Chuck Yeager?
A fighter pilot ace during World War II, Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, when he flew the Bell X-1 rocket 700 mph in level flight in October 1947. Yeager later trained military pilots to become astronauts and served in various command posts until his retirement from the Air Force in 1975. His profile boosted by his portrayal in the 1979 book The Right Stuff and its 1983 film adaptation, Yeager became a well-known celebrity endorser and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985.
Early Life
Charles Elwood Yeager was born on February 13, 1923, in Myra, West Virginia, and primarily grew up in the town of Hamlin. In September 1941, shortly after graduating from high school, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps.
Proving a superb pilot in training, Yeager was assigned to the Eighth Air Force for combat operations in World War II. In March 1944, his P-51 Mustang was shot down over France, but Yeager evaded capture and escaped to Spain. He could have gone home, but he put in a request to
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Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (born February 13, 1923) is a retired Brigadier-General in the United States Air Force and a noted test pilot. In 1947, he, at age 24, became the first pilot to travel faster than sound in level flight and ascent.
His career began in World War II as a private in the U.S. Army Air Forces. After serving as an aircraft mechanic, in September 1942 he entered enlisted pilot training and upon graduation was promoted to the rank of Flight Officer (WW 2 U.S. Army Air Forces rank equivalent to Warrant Officer) and became a P-51 Mustangfighter pilot. After the war he became a test pilot of many kinds of aircraft and rocket planes. Yeager was the first man to break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, flying the experimental Bell X-1 at Mach 1 at an altitude of 45,000 ft (13,700 m). Although Scott Crossfield was the first man to fly faster than Mach 2 in 1953, Yeager shortly thereafter exceeded Mach 2.4.[1] He later commanded fighter squadrons and wings in Germany and in Southeast Asia during the Viet
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