Sad, but I guess inevitable news....but what a life!
Chuck Yeager: First pilot to fly supersonic dies aged 97 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55225903
Chuck Yeager
- simonjrwinter
- Posts: 1369
- Joined: Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:25 pm
- Location: Upminster, Essex.
Chuck Yeager
TR6 (V8) Hawk 289 FIA (V8) Doing my bit for global warming.
Re: Chuck Yeager
A hero of my youth. Must have had ice in his veins. The right stuff indeed. RIP.
Re: Chuck Yeager
Loved watching 'the Right Stuff'.
Fly in the ointment was British stupidity letting the US govt walk away with the Miles airframe blueprints that became the Bell X-1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X1
Fly in the ointment was British stupidity letting the US govt walk away with the Miles airframe blueprints that became the Bell X-1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X1