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
jobs best-job way
You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of serious situations. And that's the way the X-1 was.
jobs goal way
There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It's just to do the job as best you can. If it turns out good, fine. If it doesn't, that's the way it goes.
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.
bring emotional laid room sort
That room is really well laid out, ... It was sort of emotional to go through the display. You see a lot of things that bring back a lot of memories.
budgets clinton glenn guy hype john nasa needs payoff picked publicity space support
It's a payoff to John Glenn for his support of (President) Clinton and also the NASA budget. NASA needs the publicity and they couldn't have picked a better guy to hype the space program.
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.
It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.
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.
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.
pilots aviation flight
There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.
space nasa mess
In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.