Chuck Yeager RIP
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 10:18 pm
by jadokast98
Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier, dead at 97
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chuck-yeager ... dead-at-97
Re: Chuck Yeager RIP
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 1:43 am
by BogDog
I saw him at the Reno Air Races in the early 1980s. They held a drawing and a winner got to go for a ride in a 2-seat Mustang with the man.
I didn't win
Blue Skies forever, General. Right stuff there, indeed.
https://youtu.be/SB2v-tnrtug
Re: Chuck Yeager RIP
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 5:58 am
by MadMax359
today we take breaking the sound barrrier as routine, but when he did it he was a true pioneer
Re: Chuck Yeager RIP
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:40 am
by Duncan Edwards
A righteous warrior and bearer of the Right Stuff. He had what it took to go where no man had gone before and come back every time. I read both his books and he was more than just a fortunate hillbilly with a need for speed. As if becoming an Ace in one day and breaking the sound barrier wasn't enough, he will most likely forever hold the record for surviving altitude in a flat spin, among many other near death experiences.