CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A recent exhibit on Chuck Yeager coinciding with the seventy fifth anniversary of his breaking the sound barrier has been opened at West Virginia International Yeager Airport.
Officials from the airport participated within the opening Monday, together with staff from Marshall University, where Yeager donated artifacts in 1986.
“Gen. Yeager’s influence on our airport and on the aviation community at large is undeniable,” airport Director and CEO Dominique Ranieri said in a news release.
The exhibit is situated within the airport’s statement area.
Lori Thompson, Marshall’s head of special collections, said that among the many materials within the display are a framed copy of “Bell XS-1 Makes Supersonic Flight,” from Aviation Week, December 22, 1947; a plaque presented for years of dedicated service from the U.S. Air Force; a sculpture on a picket base commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of breaking the sound barrier in 1997; and a plaque presented by the Charleston Gazette-Mail for “West Virginian of the Yr.”
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David Pittenger, a Marshall professor who also works with the flight school, said the long-term goal is to have a rotation of shows about Yeager that draw from the university’s archives.
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