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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-282/
- Published: 2020-12-09T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-12-09T09:03:50.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: History, News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

**Chuck Yeager**, the most famous test pilot of his generation, who was the first to break the sound barrier and, thanks to Tom Wolfe, came to personify the death-defying aviator who possessed the elusive yet unmistakable “right stuff,” died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 97.

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Chuck Yeager in 1948\. The previous year, he became the first pilot to break the sound barrier. Credit…Associated Press

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