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December 8, 2020 04:27 am GMT
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Chuck Yeager, RIP (1923-2020)
Sound barrier busting test pilot Chuck Yeager died today at the age of 97.
From The Washington Post:
— Read the restFor his prowess in flight, Gen. Yeager became one of the great American folk heroes of the 1940s and 1950s. A self-described West Virginia hillbilly with a high school education, he said he came "from so far up the holler, they had to pipe daylight to me."
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