Chuck Yeager has died. R.I.P

banie01

https://news.sky.com/story/chuck-yeager-first-pilot-to-break-the-sound-barrier-dies-aged-97-12154822

One of the band of test pilots that hurled themselves at the sound barrier.
The 1st to breach it in the Bell X1 and I know that as someone born over 30yrs after he achieved Mach 1...

Someone who was one of my 1st test pilot heroes.
A great of aviator and a huge loss.

It's easy to say, but he really did have "the right stuff"

Davidth88

Very sad to hear that

I went to Oshkosh back in the 80s and he did a talk there , very interesting chap.

Stovepipe

One of the all-time greats. Didnt always endear himself to people but still,such an accomplished guy.

Ger Roe

banie01 wrote: »

https://news.sky.com/story/chuck-yeager-first-pilot-to-break-the-sound-barrier-dies-aged-97-12154822

One of the band of test pilots that hurled themselves at the sound barrier.
The 1st to breach it in the Bell X1 and I know that as someone born over 30yrs after he achieved Mach 1...

Someone who was one of my 1st test pilot heroes.
A great of aviator and a huge loss.

It's easy to say, but he really did have "the right stuff"

'The Right Stuff'.... a great film for the story of Chuck Yeager and his trail blazing colleagues who paved the way for space exploration.

Skyknight

Ger Roe wrote: »

'The Right Stuff'.... a great film for the story of Chuck Yeager and his trail blazing colleagues who paved the way for space exploration.

......which includes a Cameo of his good self. Good Movie..Thought there are a couple of inaccuracies.

civdef

Stovepipe wrote: »

One of the all-time greats. Didnt always endear himself to people but still,such an accomplished guy.

RIP to one of the greats.

His Twitter account definitely reflected the orneriness over the last number of years, but rarely boring.

AMKC

RIP Chick Yeager.

A legend with the stars now in the sky.

Turbulent Bill

Ger Roe wrote: »

'The Right Stuff'.... a great film for the story of Chuck Yeager and his trail blazing colleagues who paved the way for space exploration.

Bit of a cliche to say it, but in this case the book (by Tom Wolfe) really is better than the film, and I thought the film was great. Well worth a read.

Sad to hear of Yeager's death.

Kermit.de.frog

Skyknight wrote: »

......which includes a Cameo of his good self. Good Movie..Thought there are a couple of inaccuracies.

When is the cameo in the movie?

Skyknight

He's the old man in Pancho's Happy Bottom Riding Club, who serves 'Scott Crossfield the steak at time index 36:47 - 36:52...in the background at 37:46- 37:55 38:52- 39:11 ..52:55- 53:33

Pat Dunne

Determined and skilled Pilot and Test Pilot.
Flawed, Commanding Officer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/us/ed-dwight-was-set-to-be-the-first-black-astronaut-heres-why-that-never-happened.html

GreeBo

As a kid I knew the name even before I had any context about who he was or what he had done.

Kinda at the Neil Armstrong level for me.

Stovepipe

Pat Dunne wrote: »

Determined and skilled Pilot and Test Pilot.
Flawed, Commanding Officer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/us/ed-dwight-was-set-to-be-the-first-black-astronaut-heres-why-that-never-happened.html

Nothing to do with colour. The White House was pushing hard to get a Black/Asian/Hispanic astronaut into space but the available pool of skilled pilots of those origins was very small. Dwight was a good candidate, clearly a skilled pilot but Yeager,who was one of his instructors in engineering college, felt that he wasn't quite good enough for the Space program. Bear in mind that Yeager was rejected as an astronaut candidate for not having a college degree. When Dwight was rejected, Yeager took a certain amount of flak for that but some of the actual astronauts and engineers who took part in the selection process agreed with Yeager and said so. Plenty of skilled White pilots were rejected,too.