Brash, opinionated, stubborn and given to wild antics, Yeager also comes across as a man of integrity and courage. Yeager both lived and made aviation history. He tells his story vividly and pulls no punches in describing the events and the people who made history with him. Includes excerpts from Glennis Yeager and Bud Anderson, and others.

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.

Relates how the young pilot distinguished himself in World War II and subsequently became the first person to break the sonic barrier.

Captain Charles E. Yeager breaks the sound barrier.

"Bold, brash, and brimming with courage, Chuck Yeager burst onto the scene as a national hero in 1947, when he became the first to fly an airplane faster than the speed of sound. Yet even before his days as America's most famous test pilot, Yeager was a young fighter ace in the US Army Air Force, flying a P-51 Mustang over Nazi-occupied Europe. His exploits are the stuff of legend"--