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|serviceyears = 1941–75 (34 years) |rank = 30px Brigadier General |battles = |awards = See below |spouse = Glennis Dickhouse (1945–90; her death)(4 children) Victoria Scott D'Angelo (2003–present) |relations = Steve Yeager (nephew) |laterwork = Flight instructor |signature = Chuck Yeager signature.SVG |website = http://www.chuckyeager.com }} Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (; born , 1923) is a retired brigadier general in the United States Air Force and record-setting test pilot. In 1947, he became the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight. Yeager's career began in World War II as a private in the United States Army Air Forces.〔Yeager had not been in an airplane prior to January 1942, when his Engineering Officer invited him on a test flight after maintenance of an AT-11. He related that he got really sick on the flight: "After puking all over myself I said, 'Yeager, you made a big mistake'". ''My First Time'', Air & Space/Smithsonian, Vol. 17 No. 2 (June/July 2002), p. 48〕 After serving as an aircraft mechanic, in September 1942 he entered enlisted pilot training and upon graduation was promoted to the rank of flight officer (the World War II USAAF equivalent to warrant officer) and became a P-51 fighter pilot. After the war, Yeager became a test pilot of many types of aircraft, including experimental rocket-powered aircraft. As the first human to break the sound barrier, on , 1947, he flew the experimental Bell X-1 at Mach 1 at an altitude of (). Although Scott Crossfield was the first to fly faster than Mach 2 in 1953, Yeager shortly thereafter set a new record of Mach 2.44.〔Yeager and Janos 1985, p. 252.〕 Yeager later commanded fighter squadrons and wings in Germany, and in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, and in recognition of the outstanding performance ratings of those units he was promoted to brigadier general. Yeager's flying career spans more than 60 years and has taken him to every corner of the globe, including the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. ==Early life== Yeager was born , 1923, to farming parents Susie Mae and Albert Hal Yeager in Myra, West Virginia, and graduated from high school in Hamlin, West Virginia, in June 1941. He had two brothers, Roy and Hal, Jr., and two sisters, Doris Ann (accidentally killed at age 2 by 6-year-old Roy playing with a shotgun)〔(Esquire Magazine - Chuck Yeager: What I've Learned )〕〔Yeager and Janos 1985, p. 6.〕 and Pansy Lee. His first experience with the military was as a teen at the Citizens Military Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana, during the summers of 1939 and 1940. On , 1945, Yeager married Glennis Dickhouse, and the couple had four children. Glennis died in 1990.〔Houvouras, John H. ("The Man." ) ''The Huntington Quarterly'', Winter 1998, p. 21. Retrieved: April 14, 2015.〕 The name "Yeager" () is an Anglicized form of the German name ''Jäger'' or ''Jaeger'' (German: "hunter"). He is the uncle of former baseball catcher Steve Yeager. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chuck Yeager」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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