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Test pilot Chuck Yeager Lifeless in 97 

Expand / Yeager in 1947 standing alongside _Glamorous Glennis_, the rocket-powered Bell X-1 which shot him beyond Mach 1. (charge: US Air Force / / Wikimedia Commons) Hard-charging aviation legend Chuck Yeager, who in 1947 became the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound in level flight, also expired on December 7. […]