Chuck Yeager (English Wikipedia)

"Brigadier General Charles E. Yeager". The 456th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved December 8, 2010.

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Chuck Yeager. Yeager: An Autobiography – via Amazon.com.

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"Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.

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Yoon, Joe (October 7, 2004). "Me 262 and the Sound Barrier". aerospaceweb.org. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved April 14, 2015.

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"BRIGADIER GENERAL CHARLES E. "CHUCK" YEAGER". United States Air Force. Retrieved April 26, 2022.
"Brigadier General Charles "Chuck" Yeager". af.mil. Retrieved December 8, 2020.

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"Yeager's Encore" (PDF). Air Force Magazine. January 1998. Retrieved December 8, 2020.

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"Chuck Yeager: Booming And Zooming (Part 1)". Airport Journals. November 3, 2003.

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Blackburn, Al (January 1999). "Mach match: Did an XP-86 beat Yeager to the punch?". Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine. The Smithsonian. Archived from the original on May 11, 2014. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
""10 All-Time Great Pilots"". Air & Space

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Disney, Ryan (2016). Escape & Evasion Report No. 686: The True Story of an American Fighter Pilot's Escape from Nazi-Occupied France. Amazon Digital Services. ASIN B01N9LBA0H.

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"Republicans Hire Chuck Yeager For Political Ads". Associated Press. October 13, 1988. Retrieved December 7, 2020.

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Poffenberger, Leah (October 2020). "This Month in Physics History". American Physical Society. Retrieved December 8, 2020.

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Yeager, Chuck & Janos, Leo (1985). Yeager: An Autobiography. New York: Bantam Books. p. https://archive.org/details/yeagerautobiogra00yeag/page/6 6. ISBN 978-0-553-25674-1.
Wolfe, Tom (1979). The Right Stuff. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 52–53. ISBN 0-374-25033-2.
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"Statement from the President Regarding the Passing of Chuck Yeager". Trump White House Archives. December 8, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2024.

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Sullivan, Ken (2006). The West Virginia Encyclopedia. West Virginia Humanities Council. ISBN 978-0-9778498-0-2. Archived from the original on October 15, 2018. Retrieved October 15, 2018.
Williams, Colleen Madonna Flood (2013). Chuck Yeager. Infobase Learning. ISBN 978-1-4381-4735-2.
Press, Salem (2009). American Heroes. Salem Press. p. 1041. ISBN 978-1-58765-460-2.
Ryan, Craig (2015). Sonic Wind: The Story of John Paul Stapp and How a Renegade Doctor Became the Fastest Man on Earth. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 98–99. ISBN 978-1-63149-079-8. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
"Airpower in the News". Air Force Magazine. Vol. 37. August 1954. p. 17.

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"Bell X-1". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved December 8, 2022.

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Group Captain (R) Husseini & Pakistan Air Force. "Trauma & Reconstruction (1971-1980)". PAF over the Years (Revised ed.). Directorate of Media Affairs, Pakistan Air Force. p. 95.

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Hassan Tahir (October 18, 2021). "Pakistan Air Force: Undoubtedly 'Second to None'!". Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies. Archived from the original on August 13, 2022.

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"The Crash of Chuck Yeager's NF-104A". December 10, 1963. Archived from the original on December 7, 2004 – via Check-Six.com.

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"Chuck Yeager's Humble Beginnings". chuckyeager.com. Archived from the original on June 15, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
Houvouras, John H. (Winter 1998). "The Man" (PDF). The Huntington Quarterly. p. 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 23, 2015. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
"Chuck Yeager's Training for War". Archived from the original on April 29, 2020. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
"Encounter Report". November 6, 1944. Archived from the original on February 22, 2018. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
Young, James. "Squadron Leader". ChuckYeager.com. Archived from the original on December 8, 2020. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
"Yeager (n.d.). To New Heights: 1961–1975". Archived from the original on September 26, 2013. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
Young, James. "To New Heights". chuckyeager.com. Archived from the original on December 8, 2020. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
"Legion Of Honor Award". chuckyeager.com. July 18, 2003. Retrieved August 30, 2022.

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"Getting schooled with the Air Force's elite test pilots". CNET. Archived from the original on September 6, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2017.

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Muntean, Pete; Silverman, Hollie (December 7, 2020). "Chuck Yeager, pilot who broke the sound barrier, dies at 97". CNN. Retrieved December 7, 2020.

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Sarfaraz Ali (June 29, 2015). "Charles Yeager and Pakistan Air Force". DailyPakistan.com.pk.

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Donnelly, Marea (October 13, 2017). "Pilot Chuck Yeager's resolve to break the sound barrier was made of the right stuff". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on October 18, 2017. Retrieved March 29, 2018.

esquire.com

"Chuck Yeager: What I've Learned". Esquire Magazine. December 25, 2008. Archived from the original on July 13, 2014. Retrieved May 25, 2014.

fearnotlaw.com

Yeager v. D'Angelo, C052483 (Cal.App.3rd August 22, 2008), archived from the original.

flyingmag.com

"Chuck Yeager". Flying Magazine's 51 Heroes of Aviation. August 19, 2013. Retrieved April 14, 2015.

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"The Daily Diary of President Gerald R. Ford: December 8, 1976" (PDF). The White House. December 8, 1976. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 20, 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2012 – via Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.

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Brown, Walter J. (July 16, 2019). "Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here's Why That Never Happened". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Archived from the original on January 1, 2022. Retrieved February 20, 2021.

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"Yeager Award". Civil Air Patrol. Archived from the original on November 4, 2013. Retrieved July 10, 2014.

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"This day in history: Yeager breaks the sound barrier". Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved September 5, 2015.

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"Yeager's View, In Review" – via Kalimera.org.

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Kantowski, Ron (April 6, 2006). "Q+A Steve Yeager". Las Vegas Sun. Archived from the original on March 8, 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2016. He's not my uncle, he's a cousin. That's a misprint. You can't believe everything you read.

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"Jeana Yeager Was Not Just Along for the Ride". Los Angeles Times. December 24, 1986. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2016.

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Hubler, Shawn (July 2, 2004). "Far from heavens". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 6, 2020.

legacy.com

"Michael Yeager (1947-2011)-obituary". Legacy.com.

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"The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club". Archived from the original on May 23, 2013. Retrieved August 3, 2013.

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"The Ability of a STOL Fighter to Perform the Mission of Tactical Air Forces (1961)". p. 3. Retrieved December 8, 2020.

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"C.A. rules against Chuck Yeager's daughter in dispute with stepmother". MetNews. August 26, 2008. Archived from the original on December 18, 2012. Retrieved November 30, 2012.

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"Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer". Moby Games. Archived from the original on July 31, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2017.

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"Mackay 1940–1949 Winners". National Aeronautic Association. Archived from the original on January 27, 2012.
"Collier 1940–1949 Recipients". National Aeronautic Association. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
NAA list of Mackay Trophy Winners Archived February 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

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"Two U.S. planes fly faster than sound". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. June 11, 1948. p. 4.

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"Four-Year-Old Boy Kills Baby Sister with Gun". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. December 23, 1930. p. 2. Retrieved December 12, 2020 – via Newspapers.com .
Harbert, Nancy (September 27, 1981). "Hall to Induct Seven Space Pioneers". Albuquerque Journal. p. 53. Retrieved March 27, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
Kaplan, Tracey (September 23, 1990). "Ground-Level Monuments Honor Heroes of the Air". Los Angeles Times. p. 840 – via Newspapers.com.
"Three to Share Collier Trophy". The Semi-Weekly Spokesman-Review. Associated Press. December 15, 1948. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.

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Goldstein, Richard (December 7, 2020). "Chuck Yeager, Test Pilot Who Broke the Sound Barrier, Is Dead at 97". The New York Times. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
"New U.S. Plane Said to Fly Faster Than Speed of Sound". The New York Times. December 22, 1947. Archived from the original on July 23, 2018. An experimental rocket plane, the Bell XS-1, has flown faster than the speed of sound a number of times recently, Aviation Week reports in an issue to be released tomorrow.
Brown, Walter J. (July 16, 2019). "Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here's Why That Never Happened". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Archived from the original on January 1, 2022. Retrieved February 20, 2021.

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"Harmon Prizes go for 2 Air "Firsts"; Vertical-Flight Test Pilot and Airship Endurance Captain Are 1955 Winners". The New York Times. July 5, 1955.
"Harmon Prizes go for 2 Air "Firsts"; Vertical-Flight Test Pilot and Airship Endurance Captain Are 1955 Winners, The New York Times, July 5, 1955". The New York Times. July 5, 1955.

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Canby, Vincent (October 21, 1983). "Film: 'Right Stuff', On Astronauts". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020. Retrieved December 29, 2008.

people.com

Tresniowski, Alex (March 8, 2004). "The Wife Stuff: Feuds, Trials & Lawsuits, Bills, Bills, Bills, Chuck Yeager". People (American magazine). Archived from the original on August 9, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2011.

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Rogers, Keith (October 12, 2012). "Famous pilot Yeager re-enacting right stuff 65 years later". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
Rogers, Keith (October 12, 2012). "Famous pilot Yeager re-enacting right stuff 65 years later". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Archived from the original on September 10, 2018.

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Costantinou, Marianne (February 18, 2004). "Chuck Yeager is in love. Three of his kids doubt his new wife, who's half his age, is made of the right stuff. They're suing". sfgate.com. Retrieved February 6, 2020.

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"Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis"". National Air and Space Museum. Retrieved December 8, 2020.

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Deam, Jenny (October 1, 2005). "Chuck Yeager is honored by Tuskegee Airman". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved December 8, 2020.

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Boult, Adam (October 5, 2016). "WWII flying ace Chuck Yeager in extraordinary attack on 'nasty' and 'arrogant' British people". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on February 26, 2018. Retrieved April 5, 2018.

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Fountain, Nigel (December 8, 2020). "Chuck Yeager obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved December 8, 2020.

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Group Captain (R) Sultan Mehmood Hali (December 14, 2020). "Chuck Yeager — the flying legend — breaks the final barrier". International, TheNews.com.pk.

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Moller, Dave (February 19, 2004). "Yeager children sue their father". Nevada County, California: The Union. Archived from the original on August 20, 2012. Retrieved September 26, 2011.

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"'America's greatest pilot': Chuck Yeager, 1st man to fly over speed of sound, dies". theweek.in. December 8, 2020.

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"12 October 1944". This Day in Aviation. n.d. Archived from the original on July 7, 2015. Retrieved July 7, 2015.
"This Day In Aviation, 10 December 1963". December 10, 2021 – via Thisdayinaviation.com.

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Michon, Heather (November 10, 2018). "The Story of Chuck Yeager, the Pilot Who Broke the Sound Barrier". ThoughtCo. Retrieved December 8, 2020.

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"Harry S. Truman – The President's Day, November 2, 1950".

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"Escape and Evasion Case File for Flight Officer Charles (Chuck) E. Yeager". narademo.umiacs.umd.edu. Archived from the original on February 18, 2009. Retrieved December 8, 2010.

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Niderost, Eric (June 21, 2017). "Chuck Yeager: Fighter Pilot". Warfare History Network. Archived from the original on March 29, 2018. Retrieved March 29, 2018.

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Sullivan, Ken (2006). The West Virginia Encyclopedia. West Virginia Humanities Council. ISBN 978-0-9778498-0-2. Archived from the original on October 15, 2018. Retrieved October 15, 2018.
"Chuck Yeager: What I've Learned". Esquire Magazine. December 25, 2008. Archived from the original on July 13, 2014. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
"Chuck Yeager's Humble Beginnings". chuckyeager.com. Archived from the original on June 15, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
Houvouras, John H. (Winter 1998). "The Man" (PDF). The Huntington Quarterly. p. 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 23, 2015. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
Kantowski, Ron (April 6, 2006). "Q+A Steve Yeager". Las Vegas Sun. Archived from the original on March 8, 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2016. He's not my uncle, he's a cousin. That's a misprint. You can't believe everything you read.
"Jeana Yeager Was Not Just Along for the Ride". Los Angeles Times. December 24, 1986. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
"Chuck Yeager's Training for War". Archived from the original on April 29, 2020. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
"Chuck Yeager downs five – becomes an 'Ace in a Day'". World War II Today. n.d. Archived from the original on January 21, 2015. Retrieved July 7, 2015.
"12 October 1944". This Day in Aviation. n.d. Archived from the original on July 7, 2015. Retrieved July 7, 2015.
"Escape and Evasion Case File for Flight Officer Charles (Chuck) E. Yeager". narademo.umiacs.umd.edu. Archived from the original on February 18, 2009. Retrieved December 8, 2010.
Niderost, Eric (June 21, 2017). "Chuck Yeager: Fighter Pilot". Warfare History Network. Archived from the original on March 29, 2018. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
"Encounter Report". November 6, 1944. Archived from the original on February 22, 2018. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
Boult, Adam (October 5, 2016). "WWII flying ace Chuck Yeager in extraordinary attack on 'nasty' and 'arrogant' British people". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on February 26, 2018. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
"Getting schooled with the Air Force's elite test pilots". CNET. Archived from the original on September 6, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
"New U.S. Plane Said to Fly Faster Than Speed of Sound". The New York Times. December 22, 1947. Archived from the original on July 23, 2018. An experimental rocket plane, the Bell XS-1, has flown faster than the speed of sound a number of times recently, Aviation Week reports in an issue to be released tomorrow.
Blackburn, Al (January 1999). "Mach match: Did an XP-86 beat Yeager to the punch?". Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine. The Smithsonian. Archived from the original on May 11, 2014. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
Donnelly, Marea (October 13, 2017). "Pilot Chuck Yeager's resolve to break the sound barrier was made of the right stuff". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on October 18, 2017. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
Yoon, Joe (October 7, 2004). "Me 262 and the Sound Barrier". aerospaceweb.org. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
"This day in history: Yeager breaks the sound barrier". Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
"Mackay 1940–1949 Winners". National Aeronautic Association. Archived from the original on January 27, 2012.
Young, James. "Squadron Leader". ChuckYeager.com. Archived from the original on December 8, 2020. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
"Yeager (n.d.). To New Heights: 1961–1975". Archived from the original on September 26, 2013. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
"The Crash of Chuck Yeager's NF-104A". December 10, 1963. Archived from the original on December 7, 2004 – via Check-Six.com.
Young, James. "To New Heights". chuckyeager.com. Archived from the original on December 8, 2020. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
Hassan Tahir (October 18, 2021). "Pakistan Air Force: Undoubtedly 'Second to None'!". Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies. Archived from the original on August 13, 2022.
Canby, Vincent (October 21, 1983). "Film: 'Right Stuff', On Astronauts". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020. Retrieved December 29, 2008.
"Brigadier General Charles E. Yeager". The 456th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved December 8, 2010.
"Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer". Moby Games. Archived from the original on July 31, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
"The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club". Archived from the original on May 23, 2013. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
Rogers, Keith (October 12, 2012). "Famous pilot Yeager re-enacting right stuff 65 years later". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Archived from the original on September 10, 2018.
"The Daily Diary of President Gerald R. Ford: December 8, 1976" (PDF). The White House. December 8, 1976. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 20, 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2012 – via Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
"Yeager Comes Home". WOWK-TV. August 19, 2006. Archived from the original on November 10, 2006.
"Chuck Yeager". Wings of Hope. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved December 8, 2010.
"Yeager Award". Civil Air Patrol. Archived from the original on November 4, 2013. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
NAA list of Mackay Trophy Winners Archived February 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
Moller, Dave (February 19, 2004). "Yeager children sue their father". Nevada County, California: The Union. Archived from the original on August 20, 2012. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
Tresniowski, Alex (March 8, 2004). "The Wife Stuff: Feuds, Trials & Lawsuits, Bills, Bills, Bills, Chuck Yeager". People (American magazine). Archived from the original on August 9, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
"C.A. rules against Chuck Yeager's daughter in dispute with stepmother". MetNews. August 26, 2008. Archived from the original on December 18, 2012. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
Yeager v. D'Angelo, C052483 (Cal.App.3rd August 22, 2008), archived from the original.

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"Public Law 94-179". United States Statutes. Retrieved September 10, 2012 – via Wikisource.

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"Chuck Yeager". Wings of Hope. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved December 8, 2010.

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Fountain, Nigel (December 8, 2020). "Chuck Yeager obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
Stone, Robert (Writer, Director, Producer) (2019). Chasing The Moon Episode 1 [It Took Millions of Steps to Make One Giant Leap] (DVD). WGBH Educational Foundation. Event occurs at 1:18:05. ISBN 9781531709419. OCLC 1531709419. AE61703.
Pasztor, Andy (December 8, 2020). "Chuck Yeager, Pioneer of Supersonic Flight, Dies at Age 97". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved December 8, 2020.

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"Yeager Comes Home". WOWK-TV. August 19, 2006. Archived from the original on November 10, 2006.

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Pasztor, Andy (December 8, 2020). "Chuck Yeager, Pioneer of Supersonic Flight, Dies at Age 97". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved December 8, 2020.

ww2today.com

"Chuck Yeager downs five – becomes an 'Ace in a Day'". World War II Today. n.d. Archived from the original on January 21, 2015. Retrieved July 7, 2015.

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@GenChuckYeager (October 9, 2018). "Chuck's accounts on his visit to the K-2 in an F-86" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
@GenChuckYeager (March 6, 2019). "Chuck's Beechcraft Queen Air" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

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"Chuck Yeager, who made history for breaking the sound barrier, dies at 97" (Video). Yahoo!. December 8, 2020.