Chuck Yeager
Chuck Yeager
Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeageris a retired brigadier general in the United States Air Force and record-setting test pilot. In 1947, he became the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPilot
Date of Birth13 February 1923
CityMyra, WV
CountryUnited States of America
When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.
fanatic god understand
It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the only one who can help me.
believe thinking shooter
I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter.
airplane thinking noses
As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We got it above mach one, and once we got it above the speed of sound, then you have supersonic flow over the whole airplane, so you have no more shock waves on it that are causing buffeting...You really don't think about the outcome of any kind of a flight, whether it's combat, or any other kinds of flights, because you really have no control over it...
regret people speculation
I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.
space nasa mess
In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.
school years space
I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.
It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.
airplane flying dying
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
air air-force force
All that I am ... I owe to the Air Force.
acting hey aviation
Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.
moments reason results
At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.