Chuck Yeager R.i.P

[Diamond Joe]

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.

[MTT]

From the outside looking in. He gave it a hell of a run.

A very full life well lived

[gravitylover]

Yep, that dude sent it... RIP

[Harry]

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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[Garth Bimble]

[zion zig zag]

I must have watched "The Right Stuff" 20 times when I was a kid. RIP

[jackstraw]

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.

[billyk]

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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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.

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.

[Bunion 2020]

RIP

[Cono Este]

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 heard that too. Not always entirely the fathers fault btw.

First book a I read. Gave my son it, I think he props up his Xbox with it.

Rip


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[retirwntm]

That was one badass motherfucker. Godspeed!


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[old goat]

Anyone have proof about an illegitimate daughter? If not, STFU. Or better yet delete the post.

[jackstraw]

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?

[Harry]

Anyone have proof about an illegitimate daughter? If not, STFU. Or better yet delete the post.

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.


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[CHAIR_97]

One of my childhood heroes.
RIP

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[old goat]

Whoa! Somebody gotz a man crush on the late Yeager?

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.

[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.


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She doesn't have to be lying. She could just be misinformed.

[Harry]

Whatever.

I don’t demand people have a DNA test to be my friends.


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[John_B]

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.

Helluva life, warts and all for CY you've got to be wired a certain way to be a test pilot I'd imagine.

[bodywhomper]

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.

[old goat]

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.

[plugboots]

The passage introducing him in “The Right Stuff” is brilliant writing.

[Shredhead]

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.

[Shredhead]

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.

[glademaster]

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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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.


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Slander and libel...so hot right now.