Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager, a military test pilot who was the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound and live to tell about it, died Dec. 7. He was 97. His wife, Victoria, announced the death from Yeager's official Twitter account. Additional details were not immediately available. For his prowess in flight, Yeager became one of the great American folk heroes of the 1940s and 1950s. A self-described West Virginia hillbilly with a high school education, he said he came "from so far up the holler, they had to pipe daylight to me." He became one of the greatest aviators of his generation, combining abundant confidence with an innate understanding of engineering mechanics - what an a
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