Funny, just yesterday I was at a local drug store, and what gum did I see being sold? Beeman's.

Hey Ridley, you got any Beeman's?

Yeager was a badass.

Adolf Oliver Nipples: True story:

Because Slick Goodlin lost his seat after trying to take the US Air Force for some serious coin, he never, not even one time, flew Mach 1. He joked that he was thinking about taking the Concorde but never did.

The moral of the story: when you have the chance to make history, just do it and don't be an asshole. You can make money from fame, but unless you're ridiculously rich you can't get fame from money.

Paris Hilton anyone?

And here he is with some of the guys that helped him do it.

You know who his wingman in Korea was? Ted Williams, and Yeager said he Williams was one of the best pilots he ever saw.

meow said the dog: MFAWG: You know who his wingman in Korea was? Ted Williams, and Yeager said he Williams was one of the best pilots he ever saw.

He is also the excellent singer.

He could darn a damn fine pair of socks as well.

CravenMorehead: Yeager was a badass.

Also he has 51 different herbs and spices.

I am glad that one of the characters on the ground said, "We did it! We finally broke the sound barrier!" If one of the characters had not said that so clearly, I would not have known what was going on. Thank you American scriptwriter!

The dream of man and flightless bird alike!

Yeager is a douche of epic proportions. Also, George Welsh did it first in an F-86 two weeks before Yeager did.

aninconvenienterection: meow said the dog: MFAWG: You know who his wingman in Korea was? Ted Williams, and Yeager said he Williams was one of the best pilots he ever saw.

He is also the excellent singer.

He could darn a damn fine pair of socks as well.

His dance steps made Gene Kelly weep with envy.

To make it more awesome, he had to do it while covering up the fact that he had a broken rib, or they wouldn't have let him go up.

August11: I am glad that one of the characters on the ground said, "We did it! We finally broke the sound barrier!" If one of the characters had not said that so clearly, I would not have known what was going on. Thank you American scriptwriter!

The purpose of that line was as a prelude to the next one about the russians and national security. It wasnt telling us what we knew, that line was telling us what couldnt be said inthat context.

My interview with the General in 2007: http://computerguys.unisrv.net/EAA/2007/Audio/Saturday/gen%20yeager%20 7-27097.MP3

He started out pretty condescending, based on my appearance (I have a ponytail), but after the interview, he said I was the best interviewer he'd had since Larry King and he gave me signed copies of both his autobiographies.

Chuck Yeager is a damn fine pilot, but he's no Ted Striker.

And where did Bell nick the technology for this great USAnian achievement?

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Take out those damn %20's.... http://computerguys.unisrv.net/EAA/2007/Audio/Saturday/gen yeager 7-27097.MP3

Was at an air show at Edwards AFB, southern Cali east of LA a few years back, roughly 2005. Even at his age, they let Chuck Yeager start the show by flying a P-51 Mustang at a low altitude, maybe 500 ft, over the airfield.

At the same time they let an F-16 fly overhead at a little over Mach-1 (and roughly one mile above Chuck), and it delivered a nice sonic boom. POW!!! It doesn't get much better than that.

Been to many air shows, and that was the favorite thing I've seen.

Chuck Yeager...FARK YEAH!!!

//All I got. Don't need no more

Chuck Yeager got inside Glamorous Glennis

Really subby, let's not bring up that fling in Vegas.

meow said the dog: MFAWG: You know who his wingman in Korea was? Ted Williams, and Yeager said he Williams was one of the best pilots he ever saw.

He is also the excellent singer.

I understand he played baseball at some point too.

bmihura: Was at an air show at Edwards AFB, southern Cali east of LA a few years back, roughly 2005. Even at his age, they let Chuck Yeager start the show by flying a P-51 Mustang at a low altitude, maybe 500 ft, over the airfield.

At the same time they let an F-16 fly overhead at a little over Mach-1 (and roughly one mile above Chuck), and it delivered a nice sonic boom. POW!!! It doesn't get much better than that.

Been to many air shows, and that was the favorite thing I've seen.

I went to one there also, about the 60th anniversary timeframe. Gen. Yeager and Gen. Joe Engle (X-15/Shuttle) did a flyby, Joe as pilot, Chuck in the back seat, with a sonic boom. They put on a great show at Edwards.

Chuck Yeager got inside Glamorous Glennis



Well, they were husband and wife...

Got any Beamans?

clutchcargo2002: Yeager is a douche of epic proportions. Also, George Welsh did it first in an F-86 two weeks before Yeager did.

Exploits aside, he does have that sort of vibe.

If there's a better southern accent than Levon Helm's, I haven't heard it.

"Sir, Is that a man?"

Right Stuff! Yeah, it's a bit corny, but I love that movie.

MFAWG: You know who his wingman in Korea was? Ted Williams, and Yeager said he Williams was one of the best pilots he ever saw.

Williams was Marine Corps and Yeager was Air Force, also Yeager didn't serve in Korea. But he was 2nd American to fly a MiG-15 in 1953.

Officials present said Chuck Yeager was probably flying more than 600 miles an hour when he went under the bridge. As he flew away, he did three slow rolls before disappearing from sight. (new window)

ronnie spleen: Chuck Yeager is a damn fine pilot, but he's no Ted Striker.

Mach 1 over Macho Grande?

WhyteRaven74: Beeman's.

Bartleby the Scrivener: Beeman's

Leaving satisfied.

If you're reading about traveling at the speed of sound and your wife is screaming at you to get the hell off Fark and mow the grass, can you hear her?

Tyrone Slothrop: ronnie spleen: Chuck Yeager is a damn fine pilot, but he's no Ted Striker.

Mach 1 over Macho Grande?

I don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande.

aninconvenienterection: meow said the dog: MFAWG: You know who his wingman in Korea was? Ted Williams, and Yeager said he Williams was one of the best pilots he ever saw.

He is also the excellent singer.

He could darn a damn fine pair of socks as well.

He once fixed a flat for me using only 6 match heads and a bottle of linseed oil.

clutchcargo2002: Yeager is a douche of epic proportions. Also, George Welsh did it first in an F-86 two weeks before Yeager did.

While not disputing the first point, the 2nd is HIGHLY debatable and probably an outright lie.

Basily Gourt: If there's a better southern accent than Levon Helm's, I haven't heard it.

That's a hillbilly twang, like Chuck has, not a southern drawl, if it matters.

ronnie spleen: Chuck Yeager is a damn fine pilot, but he's no Ted Striker.

And where did Bell nick the technology for this great USAnian achievement?

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The X-1 wasn't really a technical achievement, it was a brute force/willing to take the risk achievement. They shaped it like a rifle bullet, put the shortest, strongest wings they could on it, and the biggest rocket engine they could come up with in it. It's still amazing that those wings stayed on.

Now as for the F-86 and its swept wings (which, as is pointed out above, may have broken the sound barrier in a dive while testing weeks before the X-1), we (and the Brits, and the Soviets) can thank a certain central European country (how can you Nazi where I am going with this?)