Boxx Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 (edited) October 14, 1947 "Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight." Edited October 14, 2014 by Boxx 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted October 14, 2014 Moderators Share Posted October 14, 2014 Very cool, a real hero, test pilots would climb into just about anything and try to fly it, and usually do fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babadono Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 He was part of the "Greatest Generation". God bless them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angusruler Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 many years ago I actually saw john glenn at a sears near Bethesda, md. in the outdoor dept looking at lawn mowers.........guess his grass grows just like mine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptorman Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 (edited) Awesome video, thanks for sharing. He was one of the bravest Americans ever. Edited October 15, 2014 by Ceptorman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MORE KLIPSCH PLEASE Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Most cool. Thanks for the video Boxx. I like it..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 (edited) Boxx- You scared me. I thought General Yeager had died. I'm glad to report that this 91 year old hero (and Indy 500 pace car driver) is still with us. And to think he made that flight with the full use of only one arm. Edited October 15, 2014 by DizRotus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WMcD Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 There is more to the story, of course. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X-1 WMcD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 I saw yeager in action first hand A flight back in the eighties was delayed for a mechanical issue. It was a 727, pretty old by then. He acted like a first rate jackass. It was quite curious considering what his knowledge should have been. Instead you would have thought he was a first time passenger who paid their life savings to get from point A to point B in X amount of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Greatest generation my butt. How many of our current day problems trace back to them? Greatest hyped generation more like it. Thank you Tom Brokaw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Greatest generation my butt. How many of our current day problems trace back to them? Greatest hyped generation more like it. Thank you Tom Brokaw. LOL, that's what the younger generations will be saying about us, and what even younger generations will be saying about them, and so on... All victims of their parents and grandparents. They all ruined it for us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 (edited) Thanks for taking the gauntlet Jeff. Guess what? The children of the "greatest" were saying that earlier in their lives. Then they realized the gravy train set up for them. Now its all how great they were. So the baby boomers ( the greatests children) are sucking the country dry until they die. After that the rest will have to pick up the pieces. In summary, the greatest were the worst parents, spawning the baby boomers, the most representative of which would be Bill and Hillary Clinton. of course there is more, but in the interest of conversation, enough said. As Jim Morrison said You're all a bunch of sheep. Edited October 15, 2014 by oldtimer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 My parents were neither the "greatest" nor boomers so I feel I have a certain perspective here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 After that the rest will have to pick up the pieces. What pieces? The debt nobody will ever repay? If you want to get right down to it, as a purely practical matter, I do not think we have the power to bind the unborn, nor do I think the unborn have to be bound by us. If they want to repudiate the debt, then, that's what they need to do. If they want to suffer with it, then, that's what they need to do. It's their call. When we were born, we were born naked - just like everyone before us and everyone who will follow. When we were born, we did not have the internet and cell phones, but we invented them. Let them invent the ways to deal with their problems and challenges. It's nice to exhibit some amount of stewardship for future generations, but I am far from buying into any argument that "the planet is ruined" or "humanity is hopeless," and the like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 (edited) Never said the latter. But debt? LOL. Ask an Argentinian. Re: how to screw up paradise. At any rate my main gist was against some ridiculous idea of a "greatest generation." Edited October 15, 2014 by oldtimer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 At any rate my main gist was against some ridiculous idea of a "greatest generation." I think they get greater as we go. After all, they get to ride on all the earlier successes, while they add their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 You are speaking of successive generations of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audio Android Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 (edited) My Grandfather carved his name on the inside of this plane. He was an electrical engineer at Bell and was hired as part of the crew to help build it. I would love to see inside and find it one day. The entire crew have their names inside.......somewhere?.......He left Bell after the X-2b project. I know he had his hands on a number of the X-1's & 2's......If you look on the X-2 page in wiki, he is in the group crew shot........front row, eighth from the left.... .....I can't load the pic, it's too big. He is the bald one with the white tucked in shirt and black pants... Thanks Boxx! Edited October 16, 2014 by Audio Android 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 He is the bald one with white tucked in shirt and black pants... Cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted October 16, 2014 Author Share Posted October 16, 2014 He is the bald one with white tucked in shirt and black pants... Cool! Yes... great story... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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