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Original title : "US war hero Chuck Yeager blasts 'nasty, arrogant' Brits who America 'saved' after being asked on social media why he doesn't like them"

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

1 posted on 10/06/2016 9:54:54 AM PDT by DFG
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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.


2 posted on 10/06/2016 10:00:06 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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All the foreigners are upset because the eight years of President Fumblebutt are coming to an end.


3 posted on 10/06/2016 10:04:13 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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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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Is he upset about the Brexit vote?


5 posted on 10/06/2016 10:05:42 AM PDT by dfwgator
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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.


6 posted on 10/06/2016 10:05:55 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambtion Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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Either he reads the comments section of The Guardian or he mingles with the audience during the intervals at The Royal Shakespeare Company.


13 posted on 10/06/2016 10:19:18 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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15 posted on 10/06/2016 10:27:48 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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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....


19 posted on 10/06/2016 10:40:53 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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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


20 posted on 10/06/2016 10:42:16 AM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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The comments over at the site are really funny. It seems the Brits have totally rewritten the history of World War II and our part in that war.


21 posted on 10/06/2016 10:45:14 AM PDT by billyboy15
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Let’s see . . . . Tina Brown . . . . . Anna Wintour. Yea. He’s right.


22 posted on 10/06/2016 10:47:45 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Sure, the Brits broke the sound barrier first as Geoffrey de Havilland did a power dive into the mud in 1946. All Yeager did was control his aircraft in supersonic flight and land alive.


24 posted on 10/06/2016 10:55:44 AM PDT by PAR35
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I heard he was on Twitter and immediately started following him. He’s a hoot and a half.


30 posted on 10/06/2016 11:26:52 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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The Brits believe that they first broke the sound barrier and that the movie "Breaking the Sound Barrier" is a true story.

They don't. Aviation histories from reputable British authors have always correctly credited the X-1. However, they also point out that many of the X-1's design features were anticipated in the remarkably similar-looking wartime Miles M 52, which was unfortunately cancelled without progressing beyond a 1/3 scale model- but not before the design data had been shared with Bell under a UK/US agreement.

34 posted on 10/06/2016 11:52:18 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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Yeager’s book is very enjoyable. The only hint of bitterness was that he wasn’t selected to be an astronaut. His reason was he didn’t have a college degree. Perhaps his personality had something to do with that, too.


41 posted on 10/06/2016 12:21:47 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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This guy first broke the sound barrier.

That would be George Welch, of Pearl Harbor fame.

43 posted on 10/06/2016 12:30:08 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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I know some former test pilots and one former astronaut (all great people). They respect Yeager but they sure don't like him.

One famous incident was the report of investigation on Yeager crashing an F-104. The conclusion effectively was that Yeager didn't know the airplane well enough to be pushing it as hard as he did. Yeager campaigned to ruin the career of the officer who ran the investigation.

47 posted on 10/06/2016 1:29:18 PM PDT by jumpingcholla34
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He is pretty much right .... He forgot to add Stupid

Brits dumped Churchill after the war and threw open their gates of immigration to every former Empire 3rd World riff-raff that wanted to immigrate . They closed their eyes to the mortal dangers of self injecting the poison of Islam into their Anglo-Christian culture .

What made them so stupid ? Infatuation with socialistic. communistic Liberalism .

And we are now following these arrogant fools to the same demise


50 posted on 10/06/2016 2:19:36 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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Well, they kinda are. Do they not think so?


57 posted on 10/06/2016 3:55:18 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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Well, they kinda are. Do they not think so?


58 posted on 10/06/2016 3:55:18 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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