RIP Chuck Yeager!

[guitarded]

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[GlennO]

This would be a good day to watch The Right Stuff (the 1983 movie, not the awful 2020 tv series).

 

[guitarded]

This would be a good day to watch The Right Stuff (the 1983 movie, not the awful 2020 tv series).

Such a great movie!!!

 

[Project Mayhem]

Legend. Still driving Eagles long after his aarp card.

Many legends from that bunch of test pilots out in the desert, what a gig that was.

 

[JoKeR III]

One of my heroes growing up. RIP Mr. Yeager.

 

[hammeron56]

Back in the day, "Chuck Yeager's Air Combat" was one of my favorite PC/DOS games.

 

[AlGrenadine]

This would be a good day to watch The Right Stuff (the 1983 movie, not the awful 2020 tv series).

+1

 

[Rick]

American hero and pioneer. RIP, Mr Yeager

 

[Xrocker]

He was a born rocker. He just flew airplanes instead of playing guitars.

Night before he broke the sound barrier he was drinking and chasing women at the bar. Jumped on a horse and fell off while racing another drunk test pilot. Broke his ribs.
Next morning with broken ribs and after drinking all night he couldn’t close the hatch on the X1. He had a janitor cut off a broomstick that he used push the hatch shut.
Then he became the first person to ever break the sound barrier.

Don’t make em like that anymore!

 

[Stratoblaster]

^^^^ that's crazy!

RIP Mr. Yeager....mach speed all the way.

 

[Rhodes]

Wow...just found out by reading this post. A true legend and American hero. Back when men were really men and damn proud of it!

 

[Muad'zin]

This would be a good day to watch The Right Stuff (the 1983 movie, not the awful 2020 tv series).

LOVE that movie!

He was a born rocker. He just flew airplanes instead of playing guitars.

Night before he broke the sound barrier he was drinking and chasing women at the bar. Jumped on a horse and fell off while racing another drunk test pilot. Broke his ribs.
Next morning with broken ribs and after drinking all night he couldn’t close the hatch on the X1. He had a janitor cut off a broomstick that he used push the hatch shut.
Then he became the first person to ever break the sound barrier.

Don’t make em like that anymore!

That's because they call men like that toxic now. There's no more striving to be great anymore. Too much work. Instead they try to pull others down.

 

[USMC_Trev]

Back in the day, "Chuck Yeager's Air Combat" was one of my favorite PC/DOS games.

I flew the hell out of that one.

 

[USMC_Trev]

He was a born rocker. He just flew airplanes instead of playing guitars.

Night before he broke the sound barrier he was drinking and chasing women at the bar. Jumped on a horse and fell off while racing another drunk test pilot. Broke his ribs.
Next morning with broken ribs and after drinking all night he couldn’t close the hatch on the X1. He had a janitor cut off a broomstick that he used push the hatch shut.
Then he became the first person to ever break the sound barrier.

Don’t make em like that anymore!

He was chasing his wife, in the bar and on the horse.