Brigadier General Chuck Yeager, Age 97

Husky_Khan

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World War Two fighter ace Charles F. "Chuck" Yeager was the first man to break the sound barrier by piloting the experimental Bell X-1 rocket aircraft on October 14th 1947.

As the tributes and obituaries pour in, one article I found had a neat way of framing his legacy, mainly by detailing the planes he flew through his long and storied life since he was a teenager.


And just in case your not fully aware of Chuck Yeager likely being one of Americas if not one of the Worlds Greatest Pilots, heres a few reasons why...

 

Zachowon

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May a hero rest peacefully, knowing his legacy led to what we have today militarily. With the aircraft we use
 

Laskar

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Chuck Yeager singlehandedly refuted the phrase "There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots." When you consider how dangerous the job of a test pilot is, the fact that he did so much throughout his career is amazing.

And to think that by the time I was a kid, the only thing anybody remembered was "He broke the sound barrier."
 

Zachowon

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I've seen so many people say this in reaction to his death, but you've got to admit that ninety seven years is an incredibly good run.
Especially someone whose body has taken a lot of force
 

gral

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And to think that by the time I was a kid, the only thing anybody remembered was "He broke the sound barrier."
Wasn't the main reason he got remembered in the mid-to-late-80's the fact he appeared in commercials(AC Delco batteries, IIRC)? He got rich because of it as well.
 

Whiskey Golf

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Gotta give him especial props to this: upon learning that he'd been genderbent into a magical girl for Strike Witches, Yeager reportedly asked of his alternate self: "Does she have the biggest rack?"

As a friend of mine put it:

The enlightened question of a man who knows it to be impossible to win it all, and thus seeks to merely win the battles that matter.

Can you stop the weebs from turning you into a pantsless girl? No! Well, then you might as well be the one with the nicest rack.


Also, a helluva pilot. I read The Right Stuff and like, jesus, the number of close calls he had as a test pilot. Ironically his danger level went down once he rotated back to a TAC squadron :V
 

ShadowArxxy

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In his 1985 autobiography, Yeager said that if he augered in and died the very next day, he would have no regrets and consider his life well-lived with all the things he'd been a part of already. And that was in 1985; he ultimately had another 35 years to go.
 

UberSink

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Gotta give him especial props to this: upon learning that he'd been genderbent into a magical girl for Strike Witches, Yeager reportedly asked of his alternate self: "Does she have the biggest rack?"
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Rip you fantastic bastard
 

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Did he ever meet Eric 'Winkle' Brown, because goddamn, I can imagine the stories those two would swap.
 

Husky_Khan

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Did he ever meet Eric 'Winkle' Brown, because goddamn, I can imagine the stories those two would swap.

Well I don't wanna speak ill of the recently dead but he had a real attitude problem and a strong antipathy for the British in general apparently for whatever reason. But maybe they would've gotten along if they had ever met and certainly would've had many tales to tell each other regardless. (y)
 

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