Yeager Chuck, Signed (9 results)

Second printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page). "Specially Printed for the Author" (as stated at bottom of dj front panel). INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xxiv, 294 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed with slight bumping to edges. Dark blue spine lightly bumped at head; light blue boards. Author's four-line blue ink inscription "To Nick, | A treasured friend, | All the best. | Bob Hoover" upon front free endpaper; interior leaves are otherwise bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. ISBN 0743270509.

Herb Fichter (illustrator). Here is one of a number of Herb Fichter etchings I am listing. Most of which have Aviation themes Herb Fichter (1920-1995) signed, titled, limited edition etching on paper CHUCK YEAGER BREAKS THE SOUND BARRIER - BELL X-1 -OCT 14, 1947 overall 11 3/8 x 8 3/8 ins overall plate impression 8 7/8 x 6 ins signed lower right, limited edition 47/500, titled lower left This piece came out of the estate of Herb's partner , artist and sculptor, Angie Whitson Herb Fichter was born in Jamaica, Long Island, New York in 1920. He received a scholarship to the School of Fine and Applied Arts (Parsons), New York. Then he attended Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, and the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C. By then he was a skilled engraver who was accepted as an apprentice at the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing in 1941 and thus became of the few printers ever to work for the Treasury Department. Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he left the Treasury Department and served in the military from 1942 to 1945 in Patton's Third Army where he was awarded 5 battle stars, and five major campaign medals including the Medal of Verdun. After the war, Fichter established himself as an independent artist before being hired by Jeffries Banknote Company in Los Angeles to design bond and stock certificate vignettes. At this time, it was estimated that only 15 people in the United States, Mexico, and Canada were capable of producing these engravings. Herb Fichter was one of the world's most widely reproduced, but least known artists, whose vignettes and portraits have appeared on innumerable postage stamps and securities. One of his most famous engravings is that of Walt Disney with Mickey Mouse perched on his shoulder, which was produced for Walt Disney stock certificates. In 1951, the Smithsonian Institute held a one-person show of his intaglio prints and purchased two of them for their collection. In subsequent years, he exhibited at many museums including the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Museum of Art, Washington, DC, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Boston Museum of Art "very good condition".

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine condition. 1st Edition. [viii], 247 pages of text. Leatherette binding with minimal shelfwear, and two tiny spots of minor discoloration on the rear board. No dustjacket. Signed on the front endpaper by Chuck Yeager with no additional inscription. Illustrated in black & white. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition, first printing, with the number line beginning with "1" on the copyright page. Size: Octavo (8vo). Signed by Author(s). Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 4 volumes [of 5] of the Report on the Challenger Accident. All are oversized softcover volumes bound in blue covers with white lettering and the presidential seal. White lettering on the spine. Present here are Volumes 1, 3, 4 and 5. Volume 1 has 256 pages. Color photographs and report findings. This copy is signed on the first page by Chuck Yeager, who was a member of the commission. Volume 3 contains Appendices N and O, reports from Photo and TV Support Team and from Search and Recovery. 426 pages. Volume 4 has 823 pages. Contains the first part of the commission hearings. Volume 5 has more than 900 pages and contains the rest of the hearings. [volume 2 is missing]. A thorough and chilling account of the Challenger disaster - this copy with Chuck Yeager's name - perhaps it was his personal copy, as it seems an unlikely thing to 'autograph' for someone. Please email with questions or to request photos. These are heavy books; extra shipping will be required. Signed by Author(s).

Autographed Index Card. Condition: Very good. Original signature on index card. Index card, 3 inches by 5 inches, signed by Chuck Yeager. Envelop, 10 inches by 4 inches, with the return address printed in the upper left corner. The return address is Yeager, Inc. P. O. Box 128, Cedar Ridge, CA 95924. Postmarked Marysville, CA 959 2, dated 2 Oct 1998 PM. Canceled 32 cent stamp of First Supersonic Flight 1947 in upper right corner. Address of recipient written by hand at the center of the envelop. Charles Elwood Yeager (February 13, 1923 - December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight. Yeager's career began in World War II as a private in the United States 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 USAAF equivalent to 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). 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. As such, 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 at an altitude of 45,000 ft (13,700 m), for which he won both the Collier and Mackay trophies in 1948. He then went on to break several other speed and altitude records in the following years. Yeager later commanded fighter squadrons and wings in Germany, as well as in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. In recognition of the outstanding performance ratings of those units, he was promoted to brigadier general in 1969, retiring on March 1, 1975. Yeager's three-war active-duty flying career spanned more than 30 years and took him to many parts of the world, including the Korean War and the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. Throughout his life, he flew more than 360 different types of aircraft.

Photograph. Condition: Very good. Multiple original, uniquely inscribed. Color photograph, approximatley 8 inches by 10 inches, inscribed by Chuck Yeager. The inscription reads To Raymond Lewis Good Luck! Chuck Yeager. The photo has General Yeager in the forground and a Stealth Bomber in the background. Raymond Lewis was a bombadier in the Army Air Forces who was based in North Africa and Italy during WWII. He flew B-17s and B-24s.Among his missions were sorties again the Ploesti oil fields. General Yeager only honored individual requests and personalized each picture. The family requested this personalized signed photo prior to Mr. Lewis' 80th birthday. Charles Elwood Yeager (February 13, 1923 - December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight. Yeager's career began in World War II as a private in the United States 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 USAAF equivalent to 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). 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. As such, 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 at an altitude of 45,000 ft (13,700 m), for which he won both the Collier and Mackay trophies in 1948. He then went on to break several other speed and altitude records in the following years. Yeager later commanded fighter squadrons and wings in Germany, as well as in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. In recognition of the outstanding performance ratings of those units, he was promoted to brigadier general in 1969, retiring on March 1, 1975. Yeager's three-war active-duty flying career spanned more than 30 years and took him to many parts of the world, including the Korean War and the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. Throughout his life, he flew more than 360 different types of aircraft.

Model of the Glamorous Glennis III F-15 speed of sound aircraft, boldly signed by pilot Chuck Yeager. The piece measures 16 inches in length, 10 inches in height and 12 inches in width. In fine condition. General Charles E. "Chuck Yeager logged over 10,000 hours in over 330 different types of aircraft including foreign and experimental rocket aircraft. In 1947, Yeager, piloting the Bell X-1, broke Mach 1 at Muroc Air Base (now Edwards AFB). Among the many other aircraft Yeager has flown are the F-86, F-100, X-3, X-4, and X-5. On October 14, 2012, the 50th anniversary of the Bell X-1 flight, Yeager commemorated the event by flying the F-15D, Glamorous Glennis III through the sound barrier at the exact time and place.

Display model of the Bell X-5 experimental research plane, boldly signed by pilot Chuck Yeager. The piece measures 8.5 inches in height, 13 inches in height and 8.5 inches in width. In fine condition. General Charles E. "Chuck Yeager logged over 10,000 hours in over 330 different types of aircraft including foreign and experimental rocket aircraft. In 1947, Yeager, piloting the Bell X-1, broke Mach 1 at Muroc Air Base (now Edwards AFB). Among the many other aircraft Yeager has flown are the F-86, F-100, X-3, X-4, and X-5. The X-5 was designed to investigate the "aerodynamic results, in free flight, of variable degrees of sweepback from 20 degrees to 60 degrees." The flight test was additionally intended to determine whether variable-sweep-wings were of practical use for future fighter design. After the first seventeen flights completed by the Bell Company in 1951, the aircraft was turned over to the Air Force where Yeager conducted his test on the plane.

Model of the Bell X-1, boldly signed by pilot Chuck Yeager. The piece measures 14 inches in length, 10 inches in height and 11 inches in width. In near fine condition. The Bell X-1, (Bell Model 44), is a rocket-engineā"powered aircraft, designated originally as the XS-1, and was a joint National Advisory Committee for Aeronauticsā"U.S. Army Air Forcesā"U.S. Air Force supersonic research project built by Bell Aircraft. Conceived during 1944 and designed and built in 1945, it achieved a speed of nearly 1,000 miles per hour (1,600 km/h; 870 kn) in 1948. A derivative of this same design, the Bell X-1A, having greater fuel capacity and hence longer rocket burning time, exceeded 1,600 miles per hour (2,600 km/h; 1,400 kn) in 1954. The X-1, piloted by Chuck Yeager, was the first manned airplane to exceed the speed of sound in level flight and was the first of the X-planes, a series of American experimental rocket planes (and non-rocket planes) designed for testing new technologies.