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RIP Chuck Yeager
« on: December 07, 2020, 11:23:36 PM »
Rip Chuck

https://www.foxnews.com/us/chuck-yeager-the-first-man-to-break-the-sound-barrier-dead-at-97

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High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew --
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The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

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Re: RIP Chuck Yeager
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2020, 11:32:56 PM »
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Re: RIP Chuck Yeager
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2020, 01:24:18 AM »
Godspeed, Chuck.

You'll break c up there, no doubt.

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Re: RIP Chuck Yeager
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2020, 08:21:25 AM »
Bummer to hear. That caliber of hero is literally a dying breed. What an amazing life he led. RIP.
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Re: RIP Chuck Yeager
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2020, 09:26:27 AM »
RIP General.

Too bad his family was so dysfunctional.

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Re: RIP Chuck Yeager
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2020, 09:40:08 AM »
He could be arrogant as hell, but it was a supreme confidence born of ability, experience, and accomplishment. If you haven't read his autobiography, do so. It's a very good read.

RIP.

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Re: RIP Chuck Yeager
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2020, 10:14:40 AM »
He could be arrogant as hell, but it was a supreme confidence born of ability, experience, and accomplishment. If you haven't read his autobiography, do so. It's a very good read.

RIP.

Brad

Read it the first time I think in junior high.

Comment was about the completely dysfunctional relationship with his kids.  After Glennis died he remarried.  Whether the new wife or the kids were the majority of the problem doesn’t matter.  When you and your kids are suing each other there’s a problem.

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Re: RIP Chuck Yeager
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2020, 10:28:19 AM »

Comment was about the completely dysfunctional relationship with his kids.  After Glennis died he remarried.  Whether the new wife or the kids were the majority of the problem doesn’t matter.  When you and your kids are suing each other there’s a problem.


Oh, sorry, didn't mean to infer I was commenting on your post. I was talking about how people sometimes perceived him as arrogant. He could certainly come across that way, but only because he didn't put up with fluff, filler, and dumbassery. He would talk cars and airplanes all day long, but never, ever try to BS him. He could see through it in an instant and was done with you at that point.

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Re: RIP Chuck Yeager
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2020, 10:54:12 AM »
There are two autobiographies I've read that I recommended to my older Scouts...Schwarzkopf 's book and Yeager's.  Both are full of entertainment, and good advice for young men.  Honor, integrity, courage, leadership.

I believe that there are still men like Yeager out there.  I fear that much of the BS in the world is keeping them on the sidelines at a time we could use them out front.

Hope the angel wings will hold up to his Mach speeds...
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Re: RIP Chuck Yeager
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2020, 11:23:34 AM »
There are two autobiographies I've read that I recommended to my older Scouts...Schwarzkopf 's book and Yeager's.  Both are full of entertainment, and good advice for young men.  Honor, integrity, courage, leadership.

I believe that there are still men like Yeager out there.  I fear that much of the BS in the world is keeping them on the sidelines at a time we could use them out front.

Hope the angel wings will hold up to his Mach speeds...

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Re: RIP Chuck Yeager
« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2020, 05:18:58 PM »
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us".
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Re: RIP Chuck Yeager
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2020, 02:56:38 PM »
      

That was really good !

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Re: RIP Chuck Yeager
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2020, 07:22:34 PM »
It looks like General Yeager exited the AO just in time.  RIP, General.
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