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
giving-up dont-give-up long
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.
When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.
fanatic god understand
It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the only one who can help me.
forward looking
This is a first-time event, and we're looking forward to it.
bring emotional laid room sort
That room is really well laid out, ... It was sort of emotional to go through the display. You see a lot of things that bring back a lot of memories.
budgets clinton glenn guy hype john nasa needs payoff picked publicity space support
It's a payoff to John Glenn for his support of (President) Clinton and also the NASA budget. NASA needs the publicity and they couldn't have picked a better guy to hype the space program.
believe thinking shooter
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.
It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.
real sky experience
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.
air air-force force
All that I am ... I owe to the Air Force.
believe airplane wings
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.
jobs best-job way
You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of serious situations. And that's the way the X-1 was.