WATCH: Memorial service for retired Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager, WW II ace, first to break sound barrier January 15 Then-Col. Charles Chuck Yeager in New York City, New York, Oct. 18, 1962. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) A Celebration of Life memorial service for retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager best known for being the first to fly faster than the speed of sound is scheduled for Friday at noon Eastern Time. Vice President Mike Pence is slated to provide opening remarks at the ceremony, which will be held at the Charleston, West Virginia Coliseum and Convention Center. Among those in attendance will be Gen. David Allvin, vice chief of staff of the Air Force.
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Chuck Yeager dies at 97
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Charles “Chuck” Yeager, who has died aged 97, epitomised the movie test pilot of the 1940s and 1950s. A fighter pilot hero of the second world war and later Korea, he was dashing, loyal and supremely skilled. In a life that was pure Hollywood, he named his various fighter aircraft “Glamorous Glenn” after his then fiancee, later wife, Glennis Dickhouse. Brigadier General Chuck Yeager, before his retirement in the 1970s. United States Air Force
Parts of his life were featured in the Oscar-winning movie The Right Stuff, in which he even took a cameo role, playing a bar drunk in the famous Happy Bottom Riding Club – a ranch hotel run by another famous pilot, Florence “Pancho” Barnes. He was – along with his friend Bob Hoover – one of the last of that generation of larger-than-life test pilots, usually former fighter pilots, who traded on their bravery and skill, rather than perhaps their scientific knowledge and teamwork.