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Chuck Yeager has died at age 97
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Certainly one of the “Greatest Generation “
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Sorry to hear about General Yeager. A remarkable man. P51 pilot in WWII and he sure had "the right stuff". May he rest in peace.
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I used to work with the Air Force as a contractor and remember many of his "test" flights. Some which went very wrong due to hardware failures.
He was very cool under pressure and well liked by people I knew who had met him. Wish I could have met him myself.
RIP Chuck.
He was very cool under pressure and well liked by people I knew who had met him. Wish I could have met him myself.
RIP Chuck.
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Wasn't it he who quoted 'you've never been lost until you are lost at mach 3'?
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Chuck . . . one of my heroes for sure . . . may he rest in peace.
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Here's 20 Chuck Yeager quotes as reported by Newsweek...
I bolded my favorite....
"Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it."
"I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter."
"The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down."
"At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results."
"If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing."
"Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own."
"I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me
flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit."
"The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day."
"I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation."
"Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most."
"The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best."
"All that I am ... I owe to the Air Force."
"There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It's just to do the job as best you can. If it turns out good, fine. If it doesn't, that's the way it goes."
"After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."
"When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did."
"Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing."
"It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you."
"If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off."
"There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot."
"In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since."
I bolded my favorite....
"Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it."
"I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter."
"The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down."
"At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results."
"If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing."
"Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own."
"I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me
flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit."
"The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day."
"I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation."
"Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most."
"The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best."
"All that I am ... I owe to the Air Force."
"There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It's just to do the job as best you can. If it turns out good, fine. If it doesn't, that's the way it goes."
"After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."
"When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did."
"Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing."
"It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you."
"If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off."
"There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot."
"In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since."
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Here's his account of shooting down that jet.
Yeager Destroys an ME 262 | General Chuck Yeager
Later on in life, he said it was on final, and not very sporting, but what the h***.
Yeager Destroys an ME 262 | General Chuck Yeager
Later on in life, he said it was on final, and not very sporting, but what the h***.
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Thanks Moss . . . :thumbsup: