Yeager.

YEAGER, Chuck & Leo Janos.

Item Number: 140416

New York: Bantam Books, 1985.

First edition, early printing of Chuck Yeager’s autobiography, the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Chuck Yeager on the half-title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Cover photograph by Anthony Loew. Written with Leo Janos.

General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all -- the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound . . .the World War II flying ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang . . .the hero who defined a certain quality that all hotshot fly-boys of the postwar era aimed to achieve: the right stuff.Now Chuck Yeager tells his whole incredible life story with the same "wide-open, full throttle" approach that has marked his astonishing career. What it was really like enaging in do-or-die dogfights over Nazi Europe. How after being shot over occupied France, Yeager somehow managed to escape. The amazing behind-the-scenes story of smashing the sound barrier despite cracked ribs from a riding accident days before.