Chuck Yeager Dies at 97! (1 Viewer)

[Robert Crawford]

One of the people that inspired "The Right Stuff" and the first person to break the sound barrier has died at 97 years old. May he R.I.P.

Chuck Yeager, pilot who broke the sound barrier, dies at 97 | CNN

US Air Force officer and test pilot Chuck Yeager, known as "the fastest man alive," has died at the age of 97.

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[Johnny Angell]

Ooh my, I thought he would live forever. Goodbye Chuck.

 

[Flashgear]

Incredible leader, brave hero, combat aviator of the highest order, aerospace pioneer, America's foremost test pilot and fastest man alive...an incredible and long lasting life...

Credited with 13 destroyed Luftwaffe Fighters in 64 missions, he also knew what it was like to be shot down...

When I have thought about Chuck Yeager, I can't help but laugh at the notion of him sheltering with the French Resistance in Nazi occupied France... a West Virginia Hillbilly masquerading as a French peasant, complete with beret!

See him perform his amazing F-86 Sabre Jet and Soviet Mig-15 aerobatic maneuvers in John Wayne's Jet Pilot (1957)...

 

[dana martin]

one of my personal childhood hero's, growing up near the Ohio river, yes we all heard the story's his exploits, some men don't have to prove anything, they just are more than those around them, we used to call that exceptionalism and rugged individualism. Very few of them exist anymore. when I think about him as I got older, a line from Braveheart comes to mind, every man dies, not every man lives, well sir, you LIVED, bigger and bolder than most will ever know.

Thank You for your service, the world is a better place because of it, thank you for you explorations in aeronautics, and how that chanced the world as well sir. Rest in Peace, sir.

 

[Flashgear]

Chuck Yeager with Barbara Eden in season one of I Dream of Jeannie, Bigger Than a Bread box and Better Than a Genie (originally aired on March 12, 1966)...at the time, General (then Colonel) Yeager was in Command of the Edwards AFB Test Pilot School and parts of this episode were filmed there...

 

[Dennis Nicholls]

I enjoyed his stint at acting, playing the role of Fred, the old bartender, in The Right Stuff.

 

[dana martin]

this is why there will never be another like him

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