Autographs of Chuck Yeager
Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager (/ˈjeɪɡər/ YAY-gər, February 13, 1923 – December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.
Yeager was raised in Hamlin, West Virginia. His career began in World War II as a private in the United States Army, assigned to the Army Air Forces in 1941. After serving as an aircraft mechanic, in September 1942, he entered enlisted pilot training and upon graduation was promoted to the rank of flight officer (the World War II Army Air Force version of the Army's warrant officer), later achieving most of his aerial victories as a P-51 Mustang fighter pilot on the Western Front, where he was credited with shooting down 11.5 enemy aircraft. The half credit is from a second pilot assisting him in a single shootdown. On October 12, 1944, he attained "ace in a day" status, shooting down five enemy aircraft in one mission.
After the war, Yeager became a test pilot and flew many types of aircraft, including experimental rocket-powered aircraft for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Through the NACA program, he became the first human to officially break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, when he flew the experimental Bell X-1 at Mach 1.05 at an altitude of 45,000 ft (13,700 m), for which he won both the Collier and Mackay trophies in 1948. He broke several other speed and altitude records in the following years. In 1962, he became the first commandant of the USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School, which trained and produced astronauts for NASA and the Air Force.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Chuck Yeager (Tom Wolfe Signed The Right Stuff First Printing Also Signed By Chuck Yeager) was sold in June 2024 for £900.73 while the cheapest item (CHUCK YEAGER Signed Photograph - First Faster Than Sound / US Air Force) found a new owner for £0.99 in November 2015. The month with the most items sold (16) was May 2025 with an average selling price of £43.84 for an autographed item of Chuck Yeager. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in June 2024 with £900.73 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £3.50 was September 2020. In average, an autographed item from Chuck Yeager is worth £46.48.
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