TV Guide: Chuck Yeager

Video: Faster Than A Speeding Bullet

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The quest for speed from the early aviators to dreams of aircraft of the future. This is the story of Air Speed records and the advances in technology which have contributed to the various aviation successes and failures. On the bitterly cold morning of December 17th. 1903, Orville Wright coaxed the Wright Flyer off the sands at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina and launched the era of powered flight. He also launched a race that has gone on unceasingly ever since; the race for ever more speed. Thirty-five years later, at the start of World War Two, fighter aircraft were flying at around 300 miles per hour. A dozen years later Chuck Yeager doubled that speed and broke the dreaded sound barrier, in the Bell X1. By The 1970's ordinary fare paying passengers were crossing the Atlantic faster than a speeding bullet, in the Concorde. NTSC - 52 minutes

Video: Trailer

Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The Right Stuff is based on abook by Tom Wolfe. They recount the story of the first seven astronauts selected for the NASA space program, based on interviews and research by the author. The story contrasts the "Mercury Seven" and their families with Chuck Yeager, who was considered by many test pilots to be the best of them all, but who was never selected as an astronaut. The Mercury Seven were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton.

Video: Traveling Supersonic

CBS News — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Sixty years after Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, there is a renewed push for commercial supersonic jet travel. Russ Mitchell reports.

Video: Murderer's Row Part 2

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Ted Bronson (MITCHELL RYAN), a San Francisco entrepreneur, offers a $1 million reward to the country's best bounty hunters, including Bobby Sixkiller, Cheyenne Phillips, and their partner, renegade cop Reno Raines, to find Rikki Yeager (ELIZABETH GRACEN), an executive who stole an experimental microprocessor. As the hunters outmaneuver each other competing for the bounty, Reno captures Rikki in the Mexican desert after she escapes from a bottle factory. Reno arranges to deliver Rikki to Bronson's security chief, Timothy Macy (LARRY MANETTI), at a small Mexican airport. However, to earn part of the bounty for himself, Macy secretly partners with Mitch Randolph (JAIME CARDRICHE), one of the other hunters, and tells him to ambush Reno at the airport and retrieve Rikki. When Chuck Woodley (LINDSEY GINTER), a psychotic bounty hunter, learns of this plot, he murders Randolph and hurries to the airport, reluctantly accompanied by Randolph's other partner, Scott Sain (ROBERT LaSARDO).

Video: This Day in History: 10/14/1947- Yeager breaks sound barrier

History — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.

Video: Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier

History — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Watch Captain Chuck Yeager break the sound barrier in level flight in an XS1 aircraft. You will be watching history being made.

Video: On This Day: October 14

iVillage — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

On this day in history: Pilot Chuck Yeager was the first man to travel faster than the speed of sound in 1947, Martin Luther King jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Born: Ralph Lauren, Usher.

Video: Chuck Yeager: Sound Barrier

Biography — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947. The plane that carried Yeager, the X-1, now resides at the Smithsonian Institution.

Video: Murderer's Row Part 1

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Rikki Yeager (ELIZABETH GRACEN), an executive for San Francisco-based Bronson Technology, steals an experimental computer microprocessor, changes her appearance and flees south. Wealthy entrepreneur Ted Bronson (MITCHELL RYAN) sends his security chief, Timothy Macy (LARRY MANETTI), across the country to invite the best bounty hunters in the business to a meeting at a San Francisco hotel. Chuck Woodley (LINDSEY GINTER), Nick Palladino (FRANK ANNESE), Mitch Randolph (JAIME CARDRICHE), Scott Sain, Nathan Wayne (L.Q. JONES), Bobby Sixkiller and his partner, renegade cop Reno Raines, arrive at the hotel and are offered $1 million from Bronson to find Rikki and return the microprocessor.