Word: yeager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MORRIS YEAGER Philadelphia...
...rocket engine in the tail boomed the experimental NF-104A jet Starfighter up to 90,000 ft. and the edge of space. Then disaster. The craft went into a flat spin and plummeted out of control. In the cockpit, Air Force Colonel Charles (Chuck) Yeager, 40, first man to fly faster than sound and currently C.O. of the Edwards test-pilot school, stayed with the violently whirling plane, trying to bring it out of the spin. Only at 6,000 ft. did he give up and eject, parachuting minutes later onto the Mojave Desert with burns on the left side...
...last Yale point was tallied by manager Chuck Yeager, on a pass from quarterback Ed Molloy. Coach Jordan Oliver had slipped his little manager into the game for one play, and Yeager, wearing No. 99, went almost unnoticed as he caught the aerial on the one-yard line and went over to score...
...first flyer to break the sound barrier in level flight, back in 1947 in the old Bell X-1, Air Force Colonel Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, 39, assumed command of a new U.S.A.F. school to teach latter-day rocket jockeys "everything they need to know about being astronauts." As first boss of the Aerospace Research Pilot School at California's Edwards Air Force Base, Yeager expects to help outdate himself: "By next year we'll be running 32 students through in a single class...