Chuck Yeager, who was born in Myra West Virginia on 13 February 1923, was the son of Albert and Susie Yeager. They lived on the upper Mud River and made several moves to different areas in West Virginia. When Chuck was born he had an older brother named Roy, to which he followed around since Roy was such a big guy nobody would mess with him. A little later on he had a sister named Dorris Ann, though she died at age two from an accident due to Roy and Chuck playing with a loaded twelve gauge shot gun.

As a child, Chuck would help his father with many of his jobs, like gas drilling and such. This work greatly benefited Chuck in the long run. Many of the valves and engines on the airplanes he would later fly were similar to the equipment his father used.

When Chuck was around the age of twenty, he decided to enlist in the Army Air Corps to be a mechanic on airplanes.

After going through all the training Chuck was ready for combat, in 1943 he was

After returning to see his companions at the base in England, Chuck realized that he was not nearly finished fighting, and that he would like to stay and try his luck again. It was against regulation for any pilot who had been shot down to go back into combat, for fear that they would get shot down again and tortured into telling how the French Underground works. But Chuck Yeager, being Chuck Yeager and using the stubbornness he learned from his father, begged President Eisenhower to permit him to return to combat. Arguing to the president, that he could not be lucky enough to live through another crash. Chuck flew fifty-six more missions (sixty-four in all), he shot down eleven more Germans, and out of those he obtained five in one day, becoming a double ace.

Chuck Yeager has been the recipient of every major award in the field or in fighting. He retired in 1975 at the age of 52, with the rank of Brigadier General. Though his life of flying and knowledge did not stop there, he went on to write an autobiography in 1985 with a man named Leo Janos, this autobiography was very simply titled, Yeager.

Though Yeager was living very easily and had four nice growing children, he decided to try and break his speed record one more time, only this time in a Lockheed Starfighter NF-104, In this attempt, he became the first man to eject in a fully pressurized suit. After he ejected a piece of burning debris fell and hit him mostly in the face, causing serious burns requiring many skin grafts, afterward he declared that it was his last attempt at breaking the record.

General Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager has flown impressive 201 different types of aircrafts. He also has more than 14,000 flying hours, 13,000 of those were in fighter aircraft. Although Yeager no longer flies aircraft himself, his most recently flown aircraft have been the SR-71, F-15, F-17, F-18, and the F-20 Tiger Shark. Yeager still remains an active aviation enthusiast and he acts as an advisor for various flying films, programs, and documents on aviation. Chuck Yeager has become a legend to all pilots and aviation enthusiasts, and he is truly one of the greatest men to ever spread his wings in the great blue sky.

Although he greatly enjoyed being a mechanic, Chuck always felt he would like flying. After about a year as a mechanic, he was accepted for the flying sergeant program in 1942. At first, he did not have the stomach for the career, he still did not let that stop him, he quickly got over his nausea. After a year of flight training he received his pilot wings (a pin of an eagle and the right to fly aircraft), and began flying P-39's which most pilots did not like. Chuck was an exception; all he wanted to do was

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