Gaffney, Timothy R.

Chuck Yeager, first man to fly faster than sound / by Timothy R. Gaffney. - Chicago : Childrens Press, c1986. - 126 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - People of distinction biographies .

Includes index.

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.

ISBN: 0516032232 (lib. bdg.)

LCCN: 86009555 /AC/r87

Subjects--Personal Names:
Yeager, Chuck, 1923- --Juvenile literature.
Yeager, Chuck, 1923-

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Air pilots--Biography--Juvenile literature.--United States
Air pilots.

LC Class. No.: TL540.Y4 / G34 1986

Dewey Class. No.: 623.74/6048/0924 B 92