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Chuck Yeager

19 days

ANNOUNCING Chuck Yeager, In His Own Words - audio book sold here: NOOK - …STORYTEL - …GOOGLE PLAY - … - … - Yeager Tapes: General Chuck

The Yeager Tapes Audiobook on Libro.fm

Chuck Yeager, American Hero, the Original Right Stuff, tells his own story. Hear Glennis Yeager, Chuck Yeager's first wife tell stories, too. Here it is in General Yeager’s and Glennis Yeager’s own...

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Chuck Yeager

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4 years

Fr @VictoriaYeage11 It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET. An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest Pilot, & a legacy of strength, adventure, & patriotism will be remembered forever.

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You won't believe it. I can't believe it myself. I am 97 today. 1941, age 18. I joined @USArmy Air Corps in WV.1944, age 21; Ace in a day, 1947 age 24; broke sound barrier,1953 age 30 flew 2.5 Mach; now, what's next? @HISTORY @USATODAY #Friends @realDonaldTrump @DonaldJTrumpJr

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6 years

You won't believe it. I don't believe it myself - 96 today. How to live to 120? Live to 119 and then be very very careful :-) Celebrating with friends

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7 years

You won't believe it. I don't believe it myself...but I turn 95 years old today. Enjoyed visiting with @oakridgeboys & my cousin Dodger great Steve Yeager. Oak @oakridgeboys sang beautifully as always & heard It Takes a Little Rain twice! Great song. Great day. #birthdaygift

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6 years

@ClarenceSwirly That's not the Neil Armstrong I knew

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6 years

March 26, 1948, 71 yrs ago today: Someone had to do it.

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@airandspace

6 years

Today in 1948, Chuck Yeager flew Bell X-1 to the highest velocity and altitude of any piloted airplane up to that date. He reached Mach 1.45 and flew to an altitude of 71,900 feet. #IdeasThatDefy

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7 years

Dec 17, 1903. It's been 114 years since Wright Brothers 1st powered flight. I met Orville - he was impressed we broke the sound barrier just 44 yrs later.

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7 years

95 is the new 80.

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6 years

RIP Daddy Bush - enjoyed fishin' and huntin' with you. Enjoyed campaigning in 1988 with you as well. Say hello to Barbara for me - she sure looked out for me during your inaugural parade :-)

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7 years

It will never replace sex

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7 years

@GenChuckYeager What was it like to fly an F15 at an age of 74, and go supersonic?

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7 years

Oct 14, 1947:I radioed Ridley: "This machmeter has gone all screwy." After many people had died trying, we had broken the sound barrier.

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Oct 14, 1947: B-2 dropped me in a stall.I ignited all 4 engines. I radioed: There's something wrong w/ this MACHmeter, it's gone off the scales. It only went to MACH 1:don't think they had much confidence in us :-) They heard the boom on the ground. We had broken the soundbarrier

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6 years

Thank you, Buzz!

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6 years

@GenChuckYeager You got me beat by 10 years! Happy Birthday my friend!

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6 years

Thank you all for your kind birthday wishes. They say 96 is the new 60 :-)

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8 years

You won't believe this. I can hardly believe it myself. Today, I'm 93 years and 363 days old. Monday is my birthday.

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6 years

I was the 1st Commandant of ARPS 1st school for training 1st astronauts. I am fully aware of US goals:Presidents Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson & Nixon: US will get to the moon 1st. & we did. 1st step was getting above MACH 1. We did that 1st, too @therealbuzz

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#proudtobeanAmerican #freedom #honor #onenation #Apollo11 #July1969 #roadtoApollo50

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Christmas childhood: The Great Depression didn't affect us - we were already poor. For Chrismas, we didn't get lots of presents but Dad always gave each of us an orange-very rare then in WV & we were glad to get it. I ate the rind & all. #Christmas @ChristianoRonld

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6 years

I voted. Have you?

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5 years

April 1944 We trudge along up the Pyrenees to escape the Gestapo. 3' snow, bad weather, not much food. I carry a wounded airman so he won't get shot.

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Dec 10, 1963: Saw the curvature of the earth. Then thrusters failed, ended up in a flat spin from approx 114,000' to 6000' - punched out, rocket seat set my helmet on fire...more here: #NF104 , @TIME @greggutfeld

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Dec 12, 1953, I went duck hunting early morning, test flew X-1A past MACH 2, tumbled on all 3 axes, was knocked out by hitting my head on the canopy, recovered, went home, changed into black tie, went w/ Glennis to a banquet in LA & gave a talk. I was tired @seanhannity @nytimes

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6 years

Tom Wolfe lived a good, long, productive life. He was writing about early astronauts & discovered test pilots doing the dangerous work & not getting recognition until The Right Stuff. I wrote the NF-104 part for him. @JeffBezos @BetteMidler @nytimes @CNN @NewYorker #TheRightSTuff

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6 years

Mar 5, 1944: 75 yrs ago, I was shot down. I learned last yr that the German who shot me down, was shot down by Obie, my flt leader. German's parachute didn't open. The bomber flt leader broke radio silence which alerted the Germans. Weather was stinkin'. @usairforce @DailyMailUK

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Mar 1944 WWII: Last time, I sheltered in place was at Gabriel's house, mayor of Nerac. I had just been shot down a few wks before. The Germans were still looking for me. Gabriel hid me in the shed.If caught, I'd be tortured & shot. A diff enemy than coronavirus @HISTORY @POTUS

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6 years

July 18, 1942 – A Messerschmitt Me 262 prototype makes its first flight under jet power, test-piloted by Fritz Wendel. Previous flights had been driven by a propeller. First time I saw a jet, I shot it down.

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6 years

Dec 12, 1953: I became 1st to fly faster (not up to) MACH 2 at 2.44 MACH. Then tumbled on all 3 axes 50,000'. Got knocked out, came to. No egress systems. Got it under control & landed & they got a new pilot. :-) #MACH2 @TIME You can hear the audio here:

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5 years

Recently visited places I hid out after I was shot down in France #WWII . Some of the people who saved my life are gone but not forgotten. Thank you, merci Raoul! We gathered supplies air dropped & blew up bridges together to stop the Nazis. #friends @LeFigaro_France #BTS @FoxNews

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7 years

How many of you are following me on twitter? Would be fun to get to 70,000 for the 70th anniversary of breaking...

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May 1944: After being shot down, evading Germans, & making it back to England, the US wanted to send Chuck Yeager home. Yeager bucked the system all the way up to a meeting w/ the Supreme allied Commander General Eisenhower. Gen Eisenhower said, "Normally I don't see guys like

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7 years

Q: What was it like flying supersonic at age 76-89? A: It will never replace sex.

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Q: Sir, did you ever fly for a commercial airline? A: No, although I did fly the concorde once. The pilot knew me and knew I was a passenger so invited me to fly it.

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8 years

For Christmas,my Dad gave us each an orange-only time we saw one.I ate it all, incl the rind.That was all we got.& we sure appreciated it.

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Dec 17, 1903: Orville & Wilbur Wright succeeded in the 1st powered flight. 44 years later I broke the sound barrier & soon thereafter met Orville Wright just before he died. @HISTORY @WrightPattAFB #KittyHawk #KillDevilHlls @AF_Academy @WhiteHouse

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4 years

Happy 4th of July. I flew past this in military #Jet on #activeduty duty. Quite a sight. #MtRushmore #MtRushmoreFireworks #aviation #F15 #MountRushmore #SouthDakota #July4th2020

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7 years

Q: Why didn't NASA ever select you to become an astronaut? A: They knew I didn't want to wipe the monkey crap off the seat before I sat down

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8 years

By age 24, @taylorswift13 had 2 albums sell 1 mill copies in 1 wk. By 24, I was a fighter ace, rec'd Bronze Star w/ V & broken sound barrier

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6/2/44: US kept trying to send me home-if I was shot down again, tortured, I might give up Maquis secrets. I fought it all the way to Gen Eisenhower: I've got guys shooting themselves in the foot to go home. What's the matter w/ you? Me: Sir, I haven't done my job @thetimes @CNN

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#MerryChristmasEveryone For Christmas,my Dad gave us each an orange-only time we saw one.I ate it all, incl the rind.That was all we got & we sure appreciated it. #Christmas , #December , #December2017 , #Christmaspresents , #ChristmasEve2017 , #christmaspresentideas #Christmaspresent

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8 years

It will never replace sex

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@GenChuckYeager Sir Chuck, how does it feel to be the first man to break the sound barrier? 😁

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6 years

Merry Christmas! Many beautiful Christmas lights this season

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8 years

Me. He's dead.

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6 years

On this Memorial Day weekend, I'm reminded of my good friend Mac McKee, who was shot down and stayed shot down. We were the only Flight Officers and had a lot of fun together. I also am reminded of all the French Underground who kept me safe #MemorialDay #France #WWII #Maquis

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6 years

Fishing in the High Sierras. One day I'll go back & prep & eat some more golden trout.

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Jan 1942: My 1st flight in a plane. Pilot invited me on a test flight after I maintained an AT-11. I threw up all over interior. I had just gotten accepted to flt school & thought Yeager, what were you thinkin'? Then I had to clean it up myself. @SpaceForceDoD @usairforce @POTUS

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March 4, 1944: shot down my 1st two enemy aircraft over Europe. Got credit for only one. Weather was stinkin' #WWII #Nazi #Greman #P51 #aviation #Europe #weather

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Aug. 6, 1947: While a Capt. & in the Army Air Corps, I completed my 1st flight in the Bell X-1 - an unpowered glide flight. When the B-29 dropped me, I did an unplanned roll. That's a fighter pilot! @USArmy @usairforce @USAToday @THR #PhotoOfTheDay #beautiful #summer #amazing

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Dec 7, 1941: Pearl Harbor was bombed relentlessly. I was in aircraft maintenance in California. We were on high alert; thought we were going to be bombed. I had applied to pilot school. #WWII , #PearlHarbor @TIME #Hawaii #California

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Oct 13, 1947: Ribs hurt. A lot. Went to veterinarian off base. If I'd gone to on base doc, he would have grounded me. Vet taped me up & said, "Don't do nothin' strenuous!" I told Ridley: "We have a problem." He: "Hmph", cut off a broomstick, we tested it. Worked. #BellX1 , @TIME

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6 years

Met someone today who said I didn't look a day over 90. Met twin girls age 5. They thought I didn't look at day over 20. I like them better. :-) They could not comprehend I was 90 years older than they. Hard to imagine. #Ageless

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6 years

Chuck Yeager weighs in on ‘First Man’ flap: ‘That

Hollywood's portrayal of astronaut Neil Armstrong in the biopic "First Man" was quick to elicit the attention on Friday of aviation legend Gen. Chuck Yeager.

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Christmas 1943. England. Very frigid. No flying today. We keep coal stove going to heat the cold Nissan hut, our home. I'm reminded of Christmases past w/ my parents & siblings, visiting Grandpa & Grandma Yeager up the creek. For Xmas, an orange, I'd eat rind & all @HISTORY #WWII

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October 14, 1947: Capt Chuck Yeager, lights off all 4 rocket chambers, controls pitch by a crude method amidst much buffeting, & flies the X-1, a flying volatile bomb propelled by liquid oxygen, past the sound barrier. to Mach 1.06; becomes 1st person to break the sound barrier

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Sept 21, 1953: N Korean pilot No Kum-Sok defects, flying his MiG-15 to Seoul, collecting $US 100,000 reward. I was ordered to Seoul to test fly the MiG-15 in stinkin' weather. Gen Boyd: Because of Yeager, we now know more about the MiG15 than the Russians do @HISTORY #NorthKorea

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6 years

True

CBC Archives

@cbc_archives

6 years

The test pilot who first broke the sound barrier -- @GenChuckYeager -- turns 96 today. He once told @CBC 's Midday how he got into flying in the first place. #WaybackWednesday

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6 years

Went flying today in a 182. @VictoriaYeage11 flew my wing in a taildragger. Beautiful day.

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4 years

Twitter playing games. Suddenly I'm following people for whom I did not sign up. And suddenly 3000 people are not following this account. If you want to follow this account, just keep checking if you are.

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7 years

When George H W & I were campaigning together, we found we had a lot in common. We both wrote letters to our sweethearts, we each were shot down, & we each came home & married our sweethearts the same year. #GeorgeHWBush #BarbaraPierceBush @GWBLibrary @GeorgeHWBush #GeorgeBush

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The love between George H.W. and Barbara Bush was one for the ages. Watch them share their love letters on TODAY in 2011.

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7 years

Why? What have you heard?

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7 years

Oct 14, 1947 As promised - to whomever broke the sound barrier: Pancho gave Glennis and me a free steak dinner. Well worth the risk :-)

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6 years

D-Day: I had taught the French Underground nr Damazan how to use plastique explosives fr the supply drop. Blew up major bridge for tel lines & transport. Delayed Nazi Reinforcements to Normandy Will be in film: #WWII

Yeager File-American Hero-docudrama, organized by Victoria Yeager

What the funds will be used for? Please see video. To complete the documentary of… Victoria Yeager needs your support for Yeager File-American Hero-docudrama

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7 years

She was trained and did her job as she should.

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7 years

When the N, Korean defected w/ MiG 15, Tom Collins flew it & I flew the F-86. I waxed his fanny. We switched airplanes. I again waxed his fanny proving pilot has a lot to do w/ success, often more than type airplane #MiG15 , #F86 , #NorthKorea #SouthKorea #KoreanPeninsula

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5 years

Thank you, Mr. President @DonaldTrump @POTUS for the recognition. Minute 25:44 - @cspan @WSJ @foxnewsalert @blakeshelton @ABC @NBC @CBS @TIME @Newsweek @MensJournal @usairforce

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Oct 13, 1947: Told Ridley I couldn't close door on X-1. He said "Hmm!" Contemplated this, then cut off a piece of a broom. With it, I could lock the X-1 door after I climbed in. We left it on the floor of the X-1. It was loaded on the B-29. @HISTORY @USAFReserve @usairforce @TIME

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Apr 9. 1959 – Mercury program – NASA announces the selection of US' first 7 astronauts-dubbed by news media the “Mercury Seven” @NASA #astronauts #Mercuryseven @HISTORY #TheRightStuff #RightStuffmovie The Right Stuff movie portrays them pretty well.

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Oct 1, 1969 – The Concorde supersonic transport plane flies past MACH 1 for the first time. Slow learners. #Concorde #supersonic #aviation #speed

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Dec 12, 1953 - Bell X1-A plummeted more than 50,000 feet - 3 snap rolls/sec. When I came to, I recognized an inverted spin, kicked it out of the spin, righted plane, at 25,000'. Landed, told 'em You don't need to do a structural test on this one. (Canopy didn't bust when I hit it

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Many of you have written, emailed, tweeted there should be a movie on my life. Well, here we go. Panther Branch Prods is raising money to complete the project on my life fr childhood thru WWII. We've done some filming already. #WWII #France

Yeager File-American Hero-docudrama, organized by Victoria Yeager

What the funds will be used for? Please see video. To complete the documentary of… Victoria Yeager needs your support for Yeager File-American Hero-docudrama

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March 1944 I teach the Maquis how to put fuses together w/ plastic explosives. They use it to blow up the Damazan bridge (major telephone lines & thoroughfare) just before D-Day, preventing the Germans in the south fr reinforcing Germans in north after D-Day @HISTORY @USAToday

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7 years

All of them. I survived.

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September 1941. 77 years ago I enlisted in the Army Air Corps @usairforce and rode the train to California - Moffett Field. Biggest hangar there #MoffetAFB

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7 years

Thank you to all the firemen & team working hard to battle the CA fires esp big one nr home. Still no electricity but it's contained for now

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5 years

For 20 years, I did a Celebrity Quail Hunt & Celebrity Dove Hunt fundraiser for down-syndrome and autistic folks - we raised millions. Thank you, @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @TIME @ABC @seanhannity .

Trump signs $1.8 billion autism funding bill

President Donald Trump signed the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act into law Monday.

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My friend Jim Nabors died. That is very sad. We had great times together at the Indy 50 several times & in Hawaii. Nice man. Very talented. A great singer & story teller.

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7 years

That was fun

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On Memorial Day, I was remembering my closest friend - Mac - we were the only Flight Officers so we went to arrange a dance while stationed in Oroville. That's where I met Glennis. Mac died in combat in WWII. #WWII @VogueParis @Bild @Telegraph @thetimes @WSJ @FoxNews @CNN @ITV

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Visited Jean, (little boy w/ whom I played soccer/fished, his parents hid me fr Gestapo), now 80 years old & in wheelchair. Victoria translated - he was very touched we would take the time to visit. I replied: That's what friends do. #WWII #France ,

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7 years

Watched some pelicans flying formation. Pretty good.

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@bob_savas @BillKristol @UniversalPics More Hollywood make-believe

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Oct 14, 1947: Broom handle worked beautifully. After B-29 dropped me in a stall: I fired off rockets & my MAchmeter went all screwy :-) at approx 10:35am PST we had accomplished what the ol' man (Col Al Boyd) had sent us out to do @HISTORY @USAToday @usairforce #fastandfurious

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Navy tried to detract fr AF accomplishment breaking the sound barrier. So w/ Ridley's help, we delicately loaded just the right amt of fuel into X-1 so the gear wouldn't collapse, took off, broke sound barrier, ejected any remaining fuel, & landed. Navy had 0 more to say #bellX1

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5 January 1949. Charles "Chuck" Yeager, using a Bell X-1, carried out the only conventional (runway) take off performed during the X-1 program, reaching 23,000 ft in 90 seconds.

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November 1943: I stood Glennis up in Reno, NV. I had a good reason. No, really: While training in Casper, WY, my engine blew up & I broke my back, was knocked out. A cowboy picked me up, put me on a horse & brought me to the hospital. They said I'd never walk again, let alone fly

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8 years

I was thinking today that I've been flying for over 74 years. Not bad.

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Nov 6, 1944: First time I saw a jet, I shot it down. I was 1st in my group to shoot down an Me-262. He was on final - not very sportsmanlike - but what the hell? Encounter report here: … @usairforce @TIME @USATODAY @IngrahamAngle #ME262 #WWII @nytimes

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Jan 5, 1949: Seventy year anniversary: After Navy challenged us re breaking the sound barrier only after being dropped from B-29, I broke the sound barrier after a ground take-off 70 years ago. Footage here: #soundbarrier @TIME @POTUS @nytimes @USNavy

X-1 Ground Take Off & In Flight - 250147-11 | Footage Farm Ltd

Footage Farm is a historical audio-visual library. The footage in this video constitutes an unedited historical document and has been uploaded for research p...

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Oct 12, 1947:Went horsebackriding w/Glennis after dinner at Pancho's. We raced back. Someone had closed the gate. My horse pulled 3 gs turning to avoid it. Me? I did a few flips over the fence Not good #horse @HISTORY @TIME @POTUS #aviation #testpilot #friends @usairforce @USArmy

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Chuck Yeager

@GenChuckYeager

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Oct 13, 1947: Ribs hurtin'. What to do - can't go to doc or flight doc-he'd ground me. I went to the vet in town. He taped me up & said, "Be careful & don't do nothin' strenuous!" @usairforce @AF_Academy @USAF_ACC @uscoastguard #aviation #BellX1 #X1 @HISTORY @USATODAY #California

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Chuck Yeager

@GenChuckYeager

8 years

Never did. I was in maintenance,saw pilots had beautiful girls on their arms, didn't have dirty hands, so I applied

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Chuck Yeager

@GenChuckYeager

5 years

Feb 25, 1945: I married Glennis in my parents living room in Hamlin, WV 55 years ago. #WestVirginia @HISTORY

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Chuck Yeager

@GenChuckYeager

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Nov 6, 1944: 1st time I saw a jet, I shot it down. He was on final-very unsportsmanlike but what the hell?

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Chuck Yeager

@GenChuckYeager

6 years

Aug 29, 1947 I made my 1st powered flight in the Bell X-1. Always a fire warning light. Gets your attention.

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Chuck Yeager

@GenChuckYeager

6 years

Fr @usairforce After 65 yrs & @POTUS Trump negotiation: Soldiers welcome home remains of 55 MIA Soldiers fr Korean War to US & their final resting places nr their family & friends. Welcome home be thou at peace #NorthKorea #KoreanWar Photo by USAF Tech Sgt Ashley Tyler

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Chuck Yeager

@GenChuckYeager

5 years

Interesting;

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Chuck Yeager

@GenChuckYeager

4 years

NASA Names Headquarters After ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson - NASA

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first

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Chuck Yeager

@GenChuckYeager

6 years

Yes. That's me. Barbara Bush had decided I must be freezing as Grand Marshall in Inaugural parade (very cold winter) - told secret service to bring me to sit w/ Pres @GeorgeHWBush & her, next to the heater. I never forgot that & a few other kindnesses @POTUS @TIME @DeptofDefense

Gary Yeager

@cuellorojocr

6 years

@GenChuckYeager Bush 41 inaugural parade reviewing stand. 1/20/1989. General Yeager lower left, next to Mrs. Bush.

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Chuck Yeager

@GenChuckYeager

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Nov 27, 1944 – As a Captain, I shot down 4 German FW-190s on one mission. A fighter pilot's dream @HISTORY @SecAFOfficial @Bild @ParisMatch @DailyMailUK @USAToday @latimes @MilitaryTimes @POTUS @NYPost

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Chuck Yeager

@GenChuckYeager

6 years

Sept 8, 1947: I made my 3rd powered flight in the X-1 inching closer and closer to MACH 1. Little did I know what would happened before we got there.

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Chuck Yeager

@GenChuckYeager

4 years

Thank you

The Oak Ridge Boys

@oakridgeboys

4 years

Happy #VeteransDay to the greatest aviator who ever lived ... a friend, a brother and a hero @GenChuckYeager We miss you SIR!!!!

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Chuck Yeager

@GenChuckYeager

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Feb 26, 1945: Married Glamorous Glennis in 1945. Good day. Photo in Yeager, An Autobiography.

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Chuck Yeager

@GenChuckYeager

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May 11, 1906 – Birth of my friend Jacqueline Cochran, pioneer American aviator, one of the most gifted pilots. She helped create the Women Airforce Service Pilots #WASP . I trained her to become the 1st woman to fly faster than sound. @FoxNews @CNN @WomenInAviation @NBCNightlyNews

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