WWII Fighter Ace, 1st person to break the sound barrier, 1st to fly faster than Mach 2, his list of aviation accomplishments is astounding. 97 years old. A true American hero.
Rest in piece, Major General.
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WWII Fighter Ace, 1st person to break the sound barrier, 1st to fly faster than Mach 2, his list of aviation accomplishments is astounding. 97 years old. A true American hero.
Rest in piece, Major General.
From the outside looking in. He gave it a hell of a run.
A very full life well lived
Yep, that dude sent it... RIP
I know his daughter, she lives in Big Sky and is a great skier. She is illegitimate and says he is a complete asshole who never contributed a dime to her upbringing and refused all contact from her as an adult.
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I must have watched "The Right Stuff" 20 times when I was a kid. RIP
As a kid, it was and still is a book that stands out in my mind. It absolutely captured me.
He was clearly batshit crazy! Calculated and crazy! So I'm not really shocked by what Harry typed.
Somehow this doesn’t surprise me. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were several more like her. Just a reminder that heroes aren’t always perfect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry
Doesn’t take away from his heroics as a pilot. In addition to his well known speed records as a test pilot, he was an WWII ace with 13 kills. He was also shot down over German occupied France and managed to escape with help from the resistance.
I heard that too. Not always entirely the fathers fault btw.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry
First book a I read. Gave my son it, I think he props up his Xbox with it.
Rip
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That was one badass motherfucker. Godspeed!
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Anyone have proof about an illegitimate daughter? If not, STFU. Or better yet delete the post.
Whoa! Somebody gotz a man crush on the late Yeager?Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
She is a personal friend who (pre-Covid) I spoke to face-to-face almost daily for a 10+ year period. Maybe she is lying, maybe she isn’t.Quote:
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One of my childhood heroes.
RIP
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No, somebody who doesn't like people spewing unsubstantiated gossip about the dead. Or the living. There's way too much of that shit going around.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
She doesn't have to be lying. She could just be misinformed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry
Whatever.
I don’t demand people have a DNA test to be my friends.
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Wait a minute, that's not normal? I've got a certain "friend" I need to have a talk with.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry
Helluva life, warts and all for CY you've got to be wired a certain way to be a test pilot I'd imagine.
He lived in western NV County near Beale AFB and was known to be very unfriendly (aka a jerk) with a family/personal life braided in drama and legal actions, in addition to being a great and ballsy pilot.
FWIW, Beale AFB is known to have many great pilots living nearby as it’s a U-2 base and used to be an sr71 base.
What I know about Yeager--back when he was doing flight testing the occupation was somewhat more dangerous than free solo rock climbing or being one the Walendas.
The passage introducing him in “The Right Stuff” is brilliant writing.
I never met the man, but idolized him in my youth.
My FIL, who is a awesome human and a hell of an aviator, didn’t really like him.
Still he had “the right stuff”, even if he was a Dick.
I named my son after the “White Knight “.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Hartmann
Probably a better human, even if he was on the wrong side at the time.
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Slander and libel...so hot right now.
I met him at an air show in Arlington WA back in 1980. The only thing I remember was he seemed kind of aloof, maybe a little scary. I was 12.
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No matter what you accomplish in life, when you die people will talk about whether you were a nice person or not.
97 years long in life is an achievement already everybody wants to attain but sir Chuck Yeager not only accomplished that but also the first to break the sound barrier in 1947, a one in a million kind of achievement everyone wants to experience in their lives. Rest in peace sir Yeager, you have had a wonderful life.
Those are unbelievable numbers, although I guess they were mostly confirmed by other witnesses. Wow.Quote:
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Dude, you got a man crush. Just admit it.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
In that era, the odds of a guy like Yeager having an illegitimate kid are extremely high. But I'm sure this woman just has a bone to pick with him because she had a falling out with a pilot boyfriend at one point. :rolleyes:
Maybe.
In my experiences living in ski towns I have met 3 people claiming to be the offspring of famous people who denied their existence.
Of course I do. He was my father.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
^^^ well played.
Haha!Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Daddy issues