Chuck Yeager
Chuck Yeager
Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeageris a retired brigadier general in the United States Air Force and record-setting test pilot. In 1947, he became the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPilot
Date of Birth13 February 1923
CityMyra, WV
CountryUnited States of America
life success time
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.
space people guy
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.
baby grandma feet
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.
airplane next-day use
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.
jobs very-good enjoyed
Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.
want pilots aviation
If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
pilots
The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best.
trying doe helping
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.
fun people priorities
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.
military saws firsts
The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.
inspirational leadership jobs
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
people made willing
Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.
break-through sound cockpit
Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.
hard-work things-in-life flying
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.