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To: DFG

He was good in the air. On the ground he has a reputation as “anything for a buck, Chuck”. Mostly a no class ass, rude to admirers, fans, etc.

Ask almost anyone in the aviation community.


4 posted on 10/06/2016 10:04:56 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
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To: DesertRhino

Scott Crossfield would agree with you if he could.


7 posted on 10/06/2016 10:07:25 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: DesertRhino

Hubby has a good friend who has worked with Yeager. He fully agrees with that assessment. Says he is a world class a-hole.


8 posted on 10/06/2016 10:11:12 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (Bear His image. Bring His message. Be the Church.)
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To: DesertRhino
My Father served under Yeager, LeMay and several other hard nosed officers. They ran a tight ship and he respected them for that in itself. My Father wasn’t one to evaluate one on their personality, he graded them on if and how they got the job done. In RVN Yeager ran the combat B-57 squadrons early in the war.
9 posted on 10/06/2016 10:13:05 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: DesertRhino

Well Chuck Yeager may have survived breaking the Sound Barrier, but his son Steve survived breaking the Mimosa Line.


11 posted on 10/06/2016 10:13:46 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: DesertRhino; DFG

“Ask almost anyone in the aviation community.”

He visited our A-10 Wing back in the 80’s in the UK.

Great guy. Drank lots of beer in the club (bought a few rounds himself), bonded with the fighter pilots and he was a WWII fighter pilot with great stories and had a spine and spoke plainly.

It was clear he didn’t suffer fools gladly. He was a proud American that when on Good Morning Britain and owned the lefty nut-burgers.

Plain to see he luved fighter pilots and they, him.

Ask almost anyone in the fighter pilot community.


39 posted on 10/06/2016 12:16:57 PM PDT by Hulka
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