ClaudeJ1 Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 97 years old. What a life!! A true hero. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OO1 Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 the Right stuff - RIP Brigadier General Chuck Yeager- 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 godspeed CY... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry4841 Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 RIP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 A genuine hero and patriot. RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptorman Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 RIP Sir, thank you. A real legend, maybe the bravest man ever. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbert Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Thanks to my dad I got to meet Mr. Yeager twice; he was a real down to earth good man who loved to quail hunt. I asked him to autograph a ballcap and he promptly obliged me with a smile, then dad got upset with me for pestering him, I still have the ball cap. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 I remember reading a long time ago, Chuck was a little saddened that the quality of his eyesite was DOWN to 20/20. 😂😂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaudeJ1 Posted December 8, 2020 Author Share Posted December 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Gilbert said: Thanks to my dad I got to meet Mr. Yeager twice; he was a real down to earth good man who loved to quail hunt. I asked him to autograph a ballcap and he promptly obliged me with a smile, then dad got upset with me for pestering him, I still have the ball cap. Hope you still have your dad too! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peacemaker Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Thank you and Godspeed, Gen. Chuck Yeager. High Flight by John Gillespie Magee Jr. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, – and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there, I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air… Up, up the long, delirious burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or ever eagle flew – And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Saw this earlier today, been busy again. The man was remarkable. What he did would still be exhilarating for any pilot to do these days, but he did it in the 50s!! Could domestic cars even do 140 mph yet on the highways? With my fascination with flying, the National Geographic essays on him the encyclopedias that I read... I did reports on him in school a few times. Dreamed of flying, not like Superman or Peter Pan. I'd be playing with my friends and gravity would just quit working on me. Once I was in the stars backwards summersaults were the only thing that would bring me back down. RIP General Yeager 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moray james Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 15 minutes ago, JohnJ said: Saw this earlier today, been busy again. The man was remarkable. What he did would still be exhilarating for any pilot to do these days, but he did it in the 50s!! Could domestic cars even do 140 mph yet on the highways? With my fascination with flying, the National Geographic essays on him the encyclopedias that I read... I did reports on him in school a few times. Dreamed of flying, not like Superman or Peter Pan. I'd be playing with my friends and gravity would just quit working on me. Once I was in the stars backwards summersaults were the only thing that would bring me back down. RIP General Yeager https://www.zmescience.com/research/technology/fastest-cars/#1950-1959_Aston_Martin_DB4_GT_153_mph_246_kmh I cannot find any 50's domestic American stock cars which did over 150mph but the 59 Eldorado stock did 124mph. I am sure a man like Chuck was not going to get his thrills in a stock domestic vehicle and I do not doubt that there were stock motorcycles that could do 150 mph then and race cars which could do the same. RIP to a great man. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 I was thinking speed in general and the thrill I get from it. Aston Martin... that's a dream for me too... Vantage baby or maybe a Gauntlet? No car felt like a jet going down the runway prior to takeoff... a 350 Vega was closest for me! And the planes he flew were nothing like how they are now that can go Mach 1 any time they want it to either. 2010 Gauntlet 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave1290 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 One year BG Yeager was asked to drive the Pace Car @ the 500. I got a few shots of him in the short chute between 1 & 2 then even managed a salute as he passed. Got a big grin back and a lil cut away. EVERYone there gave him heck for driving too slow! Funny as crap! They were all telling him "NEVER again!" 😂 RIP General! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbert Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 10 hours ago, ClaudeJ1 said: Hope you still have your dad too! Yes indeed; 92 years young. Dad is the ultimate outdoorsman and best shot (rifle or shotgun) I've ever known.... and that ain't no BS either. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStewMan Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 40 minutes ago, Gilbert said: Yes indeed; 92 years young. Dad is the ultimate outdoorsman and best shot (rifle or shotgun) I've ever known.... and that ain't no BS either. Cherish him Gilbert ... my pops died at age 35. I got adopted (I was only eight) and adopted Dad died 10 years later when he was only 45. My Mom died at age 33. I figured I was tough on parents so I stopped after going through two pair of them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStewMan Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Dave1290 said: One year BG Yeager was asked to drive the Pace Car @ the 500. I got a few shots of him in the short chute between 1 & 2 then even managed a salute as he passed. Got a big grin back and a lil cut away. EVERYone there gave him heck for driving too slow! Funny as crap! They were all telling him "NEVER again!" 😂 RIP General! Hey Dave ... did you keep copies of all your photographs or did your employer "own" them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave1290 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 I have BINDERS of B&W negs and boxes of Kodachrome 64 slides. They just THOUGHT they should "own them." Military, OSU sports, local sports, Indy, Mid-Ohio, Muirfield, Golf shots from everywhere. I'm buried in them! lol Someday I might break down and buy a scanner. Just more work! Think I'll leave it to the next guy! lol 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvu80 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 When Chuck first attempted to break the sound barrier they weren't sure what would happen. As the speed of sound was approached the plane would start to shake and vibrate and the engineers were afraid the plane would come apart. The speed of sound truly was a barrier. What courage to be the first one to break that threshold when death was a real possibility. Chuck Yeager is from Charleston, West Virginia, about an hour from me. The Charleston WV airport is named for him. He was loved by all West Virginians and will be missed. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStewMan Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 @wvu80 Hi Dave -- Chuck Yeager, Jerry West, WVU80 --- West Virginia ... the place of legends. Never been there ... spent about six weeks in regular Virginia ... Yorktown. was there when hurricane Gloria came through. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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