Chuck Yeager - who was inducted into the National ... Yeager's success was later immortalised in the Tom Wolfe book The Right Stuff, and a subsequent film of the same name. From his early years ...
The aircraft was an ode to Chuck Yeager, a long-time Grass Valley resident and World War II fighter pilot known for being the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound in 1947.
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