

Official U.S. Air Force portrait, 15 September 1969, National Archives and Records Administration (catalog record 542371); public domain, downscaled from the original · U.S. National Archives and Records Administration catalog record 542371 (NAID 542371; Record Group 342, 'Photographs of Air Force Officers and Officials'), 'Official portrait of Brigadier General Charles E. Yeager', 15 September 1969, via Wikimedia Commons. Original 2,416 x 3,000 pixels, downscaled once to 966 x 1,200 (never upscaled). · Public domain (US federal government work; NARA catalogue: No Copyright - United States)
비행사 · 20세기
척 예거
1923–2020
주요 업적 분야
아직 성격 매칭에 포함되지 않았습니다 — 기록된 근거가 성격 모델 전체를 다루기에는 충분하지 않습니다. 이 페이지의 다른 모든 내용은 자유롭게 확인하실 수 있습니다.
핵심 특성
주요 업적
1947년 10월 14일 캘리포니아 사막 상공에서 벨 X-1을 몰아 고도 약 13,000미터에서 마하 1.06에 도달했다. 이는 음속보다 빠른 최초의 비행으로, 스미소니언은 이 비행이 음속보다 빠르게 나는 항공기를 설계할 수 있음을 보여 주어 '음속 장벽'을 신화로 만들었다고 설명한다.
NACA와 육군 항공대의 공동 연구 계획이었던 최초의 초음속 비행으로, 벨 항공기의 로런스 벨, NACA 과학자 존 스택과 함께 1947년 콜리어 트로피를 받았다.
1948년 3월 X-1으로 마하 1.45에, 1953년 12월 X-1A로 마하 2.44에 도달하며 속도의 한계를 계속 넓혔고, 후자의 비행은 기체가 격렬하게 회전하며 추락하는 상황에서 간신히 회복하는 것으로 끝났다.
삶의 장면들
마하 1 도전 이틀 전 말에서 떨어져 갈비뼈 두 대가 부러졌지만, 프로젝트 책임 장교의 말에 따르면 그는 아무 말도 하지 않았고, 빗자루 손잡이를 지렛대 연장용으로 써서 X-1의 해치를 닫고 잠갔다.
준비해 온 비행을 포기하기보다 개인적 위험을 감수하고 신체적 장애물을 우회하려는 태도와 일치한다. 위험 감수
1953년 12월 X-1A가 마하 2.4에서 통제 불능으로 회전한 뒤, 그는 동료 시험비행사 스콧 크로스필드에게 더 짙은 대기에서 일부러 기체를 스핀에 넣었으며 스핀은 빠져나오는 법을 아는 것이라고 말했다.
아무도 대응 절차를 갖고 있지 않던 상황에서 자신이 잘 아는 기동에 의존해 기체를 회복시키는 태도와 일치한다. 자원 활용 성향
전환점
1947년 벨의 민간 조종사가 마하 1을 넘는 대가로 거액의 보너스를 요구하자 공군이 X-1 계획을 넘겨받았고, 앨버트 보이드 대령은 당시 가장 경력이 짧은 시험비행사였던 예거를 선택했으며 그는 대위 봉급만 받고 비행했다.
더 높은 보수를 받던 민간 조종사가 멈춰 세웠던 위험하고 검증되지 않은 임무를 받아들이는 태도와 일치한다. 위험 감수
비슷한 인물
전체적인 프로필이 이 사람과 닮은 사람들이에요.
출처
- Chuck Yeager (Q271939) -- verified live via the Wikidata API (2026-10-11): English label 'Chuck Yeager', description 'American World War II flying ace and test pilot; first pilot to fly faster than sound (1923-2020)', born 13 February 1923, died 7 December 2020, citizenship United States, Korean label present. Orientation only; not used as support for any row.
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, collection record 'Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis' -- museum's own account of the 14 October 1947 flight (Mach 1.06 at 43,000 feet), of the joint NACA/Army Air Forces research programme that built the XS-1, of Yeager's later Mach 1.45 flight of 26 March 1948, and of the aircraft's 1950 presentation to the Smithsonian with the 1947 Collier Trophy awarded to Bell, NACA's John Stack and Yeager. CANONICAL SIGNIFICANCE SOURCE. Institutional, not a character source; used for significance and record facts only. Read in full (the page's 106 image slides were not itemised).
- NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, 'First Generation X-1' fact sheet FS-2003-07-0085 -- agency history of the X-1 programme: the June 1947 two-phase plan, Yeager's powered flights from 29 August to Mach 0.997 on 10 October, the observation that NACA engineers used to a more cautious step-by-step approach saw Yeager and the Air Force 'acting in haste', and the top-secret handling of the result. Institutional, neutral in tone, not a character study. Read in full.
- Mark Carlson, 'Bell X-1: Dropping the Orange Beast That Broke the Sound Barrier', HistoryNet (Aviation History) -- article built on the first-hand recollections of Robert Cardenas, the Air Force officer in charge of the X-1 project and B-29 launch pilot, and on the project record: the stepwise flights from August to October 1947, the loss of elevator effectiveness at Mach 0.92 and Dick Frost's adjustable stabiliser fix, how Cardenas learned of Yeager's broken ribs, and the broom-handle fix. Independent colleague account (non-self); sympathetic, and it explicitly corrects the film The Right Stuff's version. Read in full.
- Bryan Swopes, '12 December 1953', This Day in Aviation -- aviation-history entry on Yeager's Mach 2.44 flight in the Bell X-1A: Bell engineers had warned him not to exceed Mach 2.3, the aircraft tumbled out of control and fell about 50,000 feet, his official post-flight report, a radio transcript, and a quotation from NACA test pilot A. Scott Crossfield's memoir Always Another Dawn. Contemporary technical record (Yeager's own report) plus an independent test-pilot peer's account; the compiler is a hobbyist historian. Read in full.
- Bryan Swopes, '10 December 1963', This Day in Aviation -- aviation-history entry on Yeager's fourth attempt at an altitude record in the Lockheed NF-104A: the planned zoom-climb profile, the re-entry attitude error (about 50 degrees nose-down instead of 70), the flat spin, his ejection, his burns, and a quotation from his 1985 autobiography. A candid, non-hagiographic technical account with Yeager's own recollection marked as such; reader comments below the article were not used. Read in full.
- Jeff MacGregor, 'How the Bell X-1 Ushered in the Supersonic Age', Smithsonian magazine -- essay on the X-1 programme (Bell, Stack, Kotcher, Woods and Yeager), the Collier Trophy, the aircraft's 1950 donation and Air Force Chief of Staff Vandenberg's remark at it, and the museum curators' account of Yeager as a rock-star visitor after The Right Stuff. Journalistic and admiring in tone; used for significance and context, not behavioural scoring. Read in full.
- 'Remember Chuck Yeager by Exploring the Plane He Flew to Break the Sound Barrier', Smithsonian magazine, 8 December 2020 -- obituary-style feature with the X-1 history, the 'sound barrier' idea, the one-year secrecy, and Yeager's own 1985 recollection that the flight was a letdown because 'the real barrier' was in knowledge and experience of supersonic flight. Mixed (journalist plus quoted self account). Read in full.
- 'Chuck Yeager', Encyclopedia of World Biography, via Encyclopedia.com -- reference biography covering his wartime service (incidental here), selection as the X-1 pilot, the Mach 1 flight, the December 1953 Mach 2.4 flight, the 1963 NF-104 attempt, his return to flying after a month in hospital and later career. Used for dates, sequence and the account of the fall from a horse, the doctor, and the broomstick. Reference-grade, not first-hand. Read in full.
- General Chuck Yeager Legacy Foundation, 'Punching a Hole in the Sky' -- the foundation's narrative of the X-1 programme: Colonel Albert Boyd's choice of Yeager, Chalmers Goodlin's bonus dispute with Bell, the eighth powered flight at Mach 0.96, the horse accident, the off-base doctor and the broomstick lever. Affiliated with the subject and admiring; used only to cross-check facts given elsewhere. Read in full.
- San Diego Air & Space Museum, online exhibit 'The Sound Barrier: The Men' -- museum profile of the X-1 team (Boyd, Cardenas, Hoover, Ridley, Frost, Yeager) quoting Major General Ascani that choosing the most junior test pilot for the project was 'courageous because it was unorthodox'. Museum source, somewhat celebratory. Read in full.
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, catalog record 542371, 'Official portrait of Brigadier General Charles E. Yeager' (15 September 1969), Record Group 342 -- its rights metadata (No Copyright - United States, unrestricted access) as imported on the Commons file page; the NARA catalogue site itself is script-rendered and could not be read directly. Not used for any scoring.




