Chuck Yeager - who was inducted into the National ... as nobody was certain at the time whether an aircraft could survive the shockwaves of a sonic boom. The public was only told about the mission ...

The P-39 was much better suited for the medium and lower altitudes where most Eastern European air combat took place. Soviet ...

Chuck Yeager, the legendary pilot and retired Air ... Yeager shot down a total of 11 enemy aircraft over the Western Front, downing five in a single day on October 12, 1944. After the war, Yeager ...

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