Chuck Yeager Quotes - Page 2

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• The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

  Chuck Yeager

  Military, Flying, Use

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• 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.

  Chuck Yeager

  Believe, Airplane, Wings

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• 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.

  Chuck Yeager

  Space, People, Guy

  "Chuck Yeager pulls no punches on space travel". Interview with Thom Patterson, lightyears.blogs.cnn.com. June 5, 2012.

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• Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

  Chuck Yeager

  Acting, Hey, Aviation

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• I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.

  Chuck Yeager

  Regret, People, Speculation

  "Chuck Yeager: The Right Stuff". Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• 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.

  Chuck Yeager

  Believe, Thinking, Shooter

  "Chuck Yeager: The Right Stuff". Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The needle of the machmeter fluctuated at this reading momentarily, then passed off the scale. Assuming that the off-scale reading remained linear, it is estimated that 1.05 Mach was attained at this time.

  Chuck Yeager

  Reading, Cylinders, Levels

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• There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

  Chuck Yeager

  Pilots, Aviation, Flight

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

  Chuck Yeager

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• I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.

  Chuck Yeager

  School, Years, Space

  Source: lightyears.blogs.cnn.com

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• As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We got it above mach one, and once we got it above the speed of sound, then you have supersonic flow over the whole airplane, so you have no more shock waves on it that are causing buffeting...You really don't think about the outcome of any kind of a flight, whether it's combat, or any other kinds of flights, because you really have no control over it.

  Chuck Yeager

  Airplane, Thinking, Flow

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 1, 1991.

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