When Chuck Yeager, the legendary pilot whose flight in the Bell X-1 in 1947 made the West Virginia-born test pilot the first to ever exceed the speed of sound, died at 97 in Los Angeles, aviation lost not only a record setter but also a legend whose great fame couldn't do justice to a life lived in the air. Charles Elwood Yeager was born on Feb. 13,1923, in Myra, West Virginia, the son of a coal field driller. It was a hardscrabble existence, one that Yeager embraced. Unlike many pilots who reached the pinnacle of test flying with engineering or aerospace degrees from Purdue or USC, Yeager s military career started as an enlisted man, serving as a U.S. Army private in World War Ⅱ.
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机译：当Chuck Yeager时，传说中的飞行员在贝尔X-1的飞行于1947年制造了西弗吉尼亚州出生的试验飞行员，首先超过了声音的速度，在洛杉矶97岁时死亡，航空不仅损失了唱片制定者但是也是一个传说，其伟大的成名不能对空中生活中的生活来说。 Charles Elwood Yeager出生于1923年2月13日，于1923年2月13日，西弗吉尼亚州米野山钻孔的儿子。这是一个艰难的存在，一个很好的存在。与许多达到普渡或USC的工程或航空航天学位达到测试飞行的飞行员不同，既是一名入伍男子，又是一名招募的人，担任第一次世界大战的美国军私人。
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