In 1947, Air Force pilot Charles E. Yeager forever changed the face of aviation when, at 24 years old, he piloted the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane through the never-before-broken sound barrier. For this, President Truman awarded him the Collier Trophy. Not bad for a guy who got airsick on his first flight in 1941. Yeager became a P-51 fighter ace in World War II and, after the war, turned to test piloting at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. He reprised his supersonic ride in 1953 aboard the X-1A, this time clocking a record speed of 1,608 mph. He flew 341 different aircraft types during his career-but he never owned an airplane of his own. In a 1985 speech, he said he saw himself as "just a lucky kid who caught the right ride." Yeager died at age 97 on December 7, 2020.
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机译：1947年，空军飞行员Charles E. Yeager永远改变了航空的面对航空的时候，他在24岁时，通过永无止前的声屏飞行了实验钟X-1火箭飞机。为此，杜鲁门总统颁发了他的煤矿奖杯。对1941年的第一次航班上有Airsick的人来说不差..在第二次世界大战中，Yeager成为一名P-51战斗机ACE，在战争结束后，转向在俄亥俄州代顿的Wright-Patterson空军基地进行试验。他在1953年重新改造了他的超音速骑行，X-1A，这次时钟速度为1,608英里/小时。在他的职业生涯中，他飞行了341种不同的飞机类型 - 但他从不拥有自己的飞机。在1985年的讲话中，他说他认为自己是“只是一个幸运的孩子，抓住了正确的骑行。” yeager于2020年12月7日在97岁时死亡。
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