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Chuck Yeager Biography

Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (/ˈjeɪɡər/; born February 13, 1923) is a retired United States Air Force general officer, flying ace and record-setting test pilot. In 1947, he became the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.

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Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.

Fun, High, Item, People, Priorities

Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.

Enjoyed, Good, Job, Jobs, Very Good

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

Back, Don'T Give Up, Giving Up, Long, Thing

At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to. 98 Mach. The needle of the machmeter fluctuated at this reading momentarily, then passed off the scale. Assuming that the off-scale reading remained linear, it is estimated that 1. 05 Mach was attained at this time.

Assuming, Cylinder, Cylinders, Levels, Rapid, Reading

What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

Correct, Doe, Figure, Help, Helping, Trying

At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.

Moment, Moments, Reason, Reasons, Results, Truth

That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going to wipe out half a dozen people one of these days, and that will be the end of it.

Crap, Guy, Half, People, Space

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

1966, Bureaucratic, Mess, Nasa, Space

There is no such thing as a natural born pilot. Whatever my aptitudes or talents, becoming a proficient pilot was hard work, really a lifetime's learning experience. For the best pilots, flying is an obsession, the one thing in life they must do continually. The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best. Experience is everything. The eagerness to learn how and why every piece of equipment works is everything. And luck is everything, too.

Continually, Flying, Hard Work, Thing, Things In Life, Works

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

Aviation, Flight, Pilot, Pilots, Thing

It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

Kill, Systems

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.

Airplane, Believe, Learn, Pilots, Pin, Wings

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.

Believe, Shooter, Straight, Thinking

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

Aviation, Old, Pilot, Pilots, Push, Want

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

Experience, Flight, Real, Realized, Sky, Supersonic

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

Made, Make, People, Rules, Willing

Leveling off at 42,000 feet, I had thirty percent of my fuel, so I turned on rocket chamber three and immediately reached. 96 Mach. I noticed that the faster I got, the smoother the ride. Suddenly the Mach needle began to fluctuate. It went up to. 965 Mach - then tipped right off the scale. . . We were flying supersonic. And it was a smooth as a baby's bottom; Grandma could be sitting up there sipping lemonade.

42000, Baby, Feet, Grandma, Noticed, Smooth

I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.

Differences, Flying, Chinese, Iranian, Difference, Certain

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

Life, Managed, Secret, Success, Time

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.

Astronauts, Guys, School, Six, Space, Years

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