One of the United States' greatest daredevils of the sky, Chuck Yeager died on Monday evening. He was 97.<br />The Air Force test pilot made history as the first person to break the sound barrier, flying at 660 miles an hour on October 14th, 1947.<br />Not content to stop there, Yeager went on to break other speed records, including flying a Bell X-1A rocket plane at 1,612 mph in 1953.<br />However, Yeager became well-known to the general public only after Tom Wolfe's 'The Right Stuff' was published in 1979.<br />According to Gizmodo, Ret. Brigadier General Chuck Yeager is survived by his wife, Victoria Yeager.
