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Chuck Yeager
(13 Feb 1923 - 7 Dec 2020)
American pilot who was a test pilot for the United States Air Force, and was the first person to fly a plane faster than the speed of sound.
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Science Quotes by Chuck Yeager (12 quotes)
All that I am … I owe to the Air Force.
— Chuck Yeager
Everybody that I’ve ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.
— Chuck Yeager
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
— Chuck Yeager
If you want to grow old as a pilot, you’ve got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
— Chuck Yeager
Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn’t in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.
— Chuck Yeager
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
None. I don’t drink and fly.
— Chuck Yeager
Reply to a Tweeted question: How many UFOs have you seen? (18 Aug 2016).
Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own.
— Chuck Yeager
The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.
— Chuck Yeager
There’s no such thing as a natural-born pilot.
— Chuck Yeager
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.
— Chuck Yeager
You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
— Chuck Yeager
See also:
- 13 Feb - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Yeager's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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