From there on, I was in the right place at the right time," he told Forbes. "With my visual acuity and understanding of mechanics, I was really a hell of a lot better than the cadets. The military required a college education for its pilots, but when they didn't get enough applicants for the cadet flier program in 1942, they dropped the requirements to a high school diploma. Flying looked pretty good to me," he told Forbes. "But I noticed that, as a mechanic, my hands were always greasy while the pilots' were clean - and they had good-looking girls on their arms. In a 2017 interview with Forbes, Yeager said he was a gifted mechanic who had never seen an airplane before he turned 18. Like many of his generation, Yeager enrolled in the military in 1941. Army Air Corps at the age of 18 and served in World War II, where he flew 64 combat missions. Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager enlisted as a private in the U.S. The man who would become the most famous test pilot in American history was born in West Virginia on Feb.
Muroc Air Force Base - now known as Edwards Air Force Base - in the empty southern California desert provided an ideal spot for testing a variety of experimental vehicles, including the X-1. The plane, nicknamed the "Glamorous Glennis" for Yeager's wife, slowly approached the sound barrier over the course of nine flights.
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