Retired Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager, 89, left, shares a laugh with Capt. David Vincent, right, while aboard an F-15D Eagle before a flight with the captain at Nellis Air Force Base on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012. Yeager is commemorating the 65th anniversary of the day he became the first to break the sound barrier. (Jessica Ebelhar/Las Vegas Review-Journal)