Gold Member Kivalo Posted December 8, 2020 Gold Member Share Posted December 8, 2020 Sometime today apparently. RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted December 8, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 8, 2020 (edited) True American Icon and Hero..RIP Edited December 8, 2020 by Jimmy Snacks 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skidude600 Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 5 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: True American Icon and Hero..RIP X2!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted December 8, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 8, 2020 rip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted December 8, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 8, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Jimmy Snacks said: True American Icon and Hero..RIP Agreed. RIP Gen Yeager. From his website. I was promoted to Brig. Gen in 1969, was assigned to Germany as Vice Commander of 17th AF. In 1971 I was sent to Pakistan to fly with their Air Force for the war against India. I flew the front cockpit in every airplane that I flew in for 60 years. Last one was an F-15E in October 2002. I flew every airplane in the Air Force inventory including the World War II inventory and others of Germany, France, England, Japan, Sweden, and Russia, among others. You may be interested to know that I took my F-4 Wing to Korea during the Pueblo flap in 1968. We took 75 F-4D’s from North Carolina to Honolulu (14 hours), 2 hour lay-over, then to Korea (another 14 hours) with no ground or air aborts. Edited December 8, 2020 by Highmark 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Crappie Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 One of my boyhood heroes. RIP What an amazing life he lead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCR1250 Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Danger Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Probably the best stick and rudder pilot to ever live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Crappie Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 4 hours ago, Carlos Danger said: Probably the best stick and rudder pilot to ever live. Either him or Bob Hoover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Danger Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 2 hours ago, Big Crappie said: Either him or Bob Hoover. Chuck and Bob were in the same unit during the war they were tasked with retrieving German fighters at the end to send back to the states for examination. Yeager was getting planes that he knew little or nothing about with all of the gauges and controls in german and flying them to England. For a test pilot from that time period to die of old age is quite extraordinary. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Danger Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 One of my favorite places... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted December 10, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 10, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skidude600 Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 On 12/8/2020 at 4:51 PM, Carlos Danger said: One of my favorite places... That looks like the National Air Museum at Wright Patt in Ohio. If so I was just there this year in Jan. with my two boys, my father and an uncle. Amazing place and a must see for anyone interested in the evolution of flight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry ginger Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 2 hours ago, Skidude600 said: That looks like the National Air Museum at Wright Patt in Ohio. If so I was just there this year in Jan. with my two boys, my father and an uncle. Amazing place and a must see for anyone interested in the evolution of flight. when i took my daughter out to Kent for her orientation I used it as my opportunity to finally get there. Very cool place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Danger Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 I have not been back since they finished the 4th hanger. Last time I was there you had to get on a bus to go see the presidential hanger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skidude600 Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 My first time back since the late 70's as a kid. Made a point to go since my youngest was leaving for basic later that month and I knew it was going to be a while before he was home. Little did I know covid would rear its ugly head. Haven't seen him since Jan. and probably won't for a while longer since he is overseas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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