Posted on 02/13/2018 6:52:14 AM PST by Borges
They should take him up to the ISS........................
A great American!
Great fighter pilot ace, test pilot, all around American.
Should have been in the astronaut program or at least on the shuttle flight they sent “hero” Glenn on but then despite being a fighter ace and top notch pilot, he was not a smiling pretty boy. Make no mistake, outer image was a big factor in the original selections and selecting Glenn was more a political thing than capability. Glenn was at the end of his useful physical abilities and Yeager was still a qualified jet pilot at the time.
His feats alone put him miles above many of the others and he pioneered the high altitude, high speed flight arena.
According to the first pilot to exceed the speed of sound, flying ace Chuck Yeager, born on this date in 1923, “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.”
I would want him to want that.
I love America and love being American.
My wife is Filipina and we will be returning for another visit in a month or so.
I DO love the tropical paradise of where we will be visiting our family and I TELL ya' ....
If I knew I had a week left to live, I'd love to close my eyes for the last time on a tropical beach.
Unless it's monsoon season .... I'm no idjit !
............a National Treasure!
Happy Birthday Chuck!
I wonder who the German pilot was who shot him down. He must have been pretty good.
Godspeed Gen. Yeager and RIP Sam Shepard who portrayed him so elegantly in "The Right Stuff".
Yeager’s stint as a jet mechanic led him to being a test pilot. Jet engines were so unreliable at first that he had more time in jets than anybody in the Air Force.
I think about Chuck Yeager every time I fly and the pilot makes an announcement with that”pilot talk” Yeager West Virginia accent.
When I don’t hear it, I’ve got to admit I get a bit nervous.
Yeager on the Shuttle instead of Glenn would have been so much better, but I’ve got to admit I did enjoy it anyway.
The inventor of the Right Stuff.
a good friend of mine was a Pilot in the AF and then Delta AL, he told me one time he had to fly CY and my fiend said CY was a perfect AHole and not very friendly sort of arrogant
a good friend of mine was a Pilot in the AF and then Delta AL, he told me one time he had to fly CY and my fiend said CY was a perfect AHole and not very friendly sort of arrogant
Not to distract from his accomplishments, but everyone I ever talked to who knew him personally used the same two words to describe him: Arrogant A$$hole. Might have had something to do with where his career topped out.
Well then, Happy Birthday Chuck,you arrogant asshole.
Back in the mid 90’s, at some kind of Air Force bigwig gathering at the C-17 plant in Long Beach, a lowly Planner friend of mine was walking along the back wall of the room (to get to the restroom), when Chuck Yeager gets off of the stage in the front of the room, walks clear back to the back of the room and shakes my friends hand, saying “Hi Joe, it’s been awhile”. Seems that a decade earlier, up in Palmdale, Joe often visited the same food joint in town and one day, lo and behold, Chuck Yeager came in looking for a place to sit. He asked Joe if that seat was taken. They had a good conversation. Even sat together a few times on other days. What killed me was the fact that Chuck recognized Joe over a decade later in a totally different setting. He must have an amazing memory bank in his head.
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