num_pages: 126
description: Surveys the life of the country boy from West Virginia who became a great pilot, ending his career as an Air Force brigadier general with more than 10,000 hours of flying time in some 180 different aircraft.
language: English
title: Chuck Yeager, First Man to Fly Faster Than Sound
titlecomplete: Chuck Yeager, First Man to Fly Faster Than Sound
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Children's Press(CT)