Posted on 10/06/2016 9:54:54 AM PDT by DFG
93 year old Chuck Yeager tweets more than DJT.
https://twitter.com/GenChuckYeager?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
The Brits believe that they first broke the sound barrier and that the movie "Breaking the Sound Barrier" is a true story.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044446/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I think they actually might have broken the sound barrier, going straight down, but P-51 pilots did it too. The controls stopped working, sometimes control surfaces tore off, sometimes entire wings tore off.
It was called “the compressibility problem.”
Those who survived described observing shock waves coming off wing roots and protuberances.
All the foreigners are upset because the eight years of President Fumblebutt are coming to an end.
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.
Is he upset about the Brexit vote?
Right like that silliness about reversing the controls to come out of that dive. Yep. There’s a thing called cross-control but not like what they showed in that film.
Scott Crossfield would agree with you if he could.
Hubby has a good friend who has worked with Yeager. He fully agrees with that assessment. Says he is a world class a-hole.
Agree. Anytime I hear his name mentioned by people who have been around him, I hear them admire a few things of his airmanship, but I have never met anyone who respects him much as a man.
Too bad.
Well Chuck Yeager may have survived breaking the Sound Barrier, but his son Steve survived breaking the Mimosa Line.
In the air, I’ve never hear anyone criticize him. But lots of people ran tight ships in the military and were very good men. He isn’t someone to admire unless you happen to be in an airplane.
I don’t see much to admire in someone who’s only virtue is to be hard on everyone around them in wartime, and otherwise a low life in every other way.
Either he reads the comments section of The Guardian or he mingles with the audience during the intervals at The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Notably the P-38 encountered transsonic compressibility issues in the rear stabilizer that resulted in the loss of several planes and pilots before Kelly Johnson solved it with dive brakes and counterweights.
The issue plagued early jet designs also until the advent of the "flying tail". Yeager's flight in the X-1 encountered the same problems and he learned that changing pitch of the entire horizontal stabilizer overcame the compressibility effect at transsonic speeds. That facilitated his mach 1 flight. Most military jets thereafter have incorporated the design feature as standard design.
The British attempt at breaking the sound barrier ended with the crash of the DeHavilland Swallow which broke up in the transsonic range due to the stresses. A British movie released at the time claims that reversing the controls solved the problem. Pure fiction but it left the lasting impression that it was fact.
The WWII generation was no nonsense not "feel good warm and fuzzy" types. They got the job done. We haven't seen success like theirs since.
FWIW You can now get a free sex change operation in the USAF as of yesterday.
Yes, you are quite right. I was wrong. Thanks for jogging my memory.
The reason they lost control authority related to the shockwave from the leading edge; the low-pressure zone behind it caused the control surfaces at the trailing edge to have no air to bite into, IIRC.
I read a novel about the DeHavilland crash when I was a kid, and I remember the thing about "reversing the controls."
When I got older, it occurred to me that they put out that story to throw off the USSR, which was frantically working on supersonic flight.
I read that the "flying tail" concept was a military secret of the highest order when it was first tried on the X-1 rocket plane.
Yeager also said "my mach meter is acting kind of funny" instead of saying "my mach meter reads 1.05" or something clear like that because they suspected the Russians were listening in.
“The WWII generation was no nonsense not “feel good warm and fuzzy” types. They got the job done. We haven’t seen success like theirs since.”
Imagine the assclowns running the free world now pulling of something like the Nuremburg trials. It makes me laugh.
Wonder what the souls of all those teenage kids and twenty-something who died to defend England would have to say about the Brits dissing us....
It was well know that Yeager really diding like the brits during ww2
The gist of this is..when deaing with the RAF that were very much an English gentleman Country Club...
They treated Yeager, a West Virginia country boy, as a dumb hillbilly and beneath them so it’s was very much a class thing
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