RIP thread

[Gawdzilla Sama]

At work.

Punk Journalist to Mr Yager some time in the 70's: "Tell me Sir. What did you do when you saw your fist jet?"

Mr Yager: "Shot it down."

 Bloke did have an amazing life.

Chuck was assigned to test the first MiG-15 to surrender to South Korea during the war. He flew the F-86 and beat the MiG. Then they swapped seats and he beat the F-86. "You too will believe a boy can fly."

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Chuck Yeager, he was the first pilot that flew at the speed of sound.

Chuck Yeager was the first pilot who intentional flew past the speed of sound in level flight and lived to tell about it.

A few pilots likely flew at or just above speed of sound unintentionally during dives in WWII, and lived to tell about it. a few more pilots intended to fly past speed of sound in dives and in level flight after WWII, but before Yeager, and a few may have succeeded, but didn’t live to tell.

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If it weren't for the stupid rule about having to be a college graduated to qualify for the astronaut programme, Yeager could very well have been the first American in space. Eisenhower insisted on test pilots for Mercury - who the fuck fit that bill better than Yeager?

Boru

The US produced well over a million military pilots during WWII,  plenty of them became test pilots afterwards.  Except for publicity purposes because he is the pilot who happen to be there when the X-1 broke the sound barrier, how does Yeager fit the bill particularly well amongst that large pool?

But against his being there when the sound barrier was broken must be set the fact that he was only there because he broke regulations and hid a debilitating previous rib injury to be there.  This potentially endangered both the effort and the valuable experimental aircraft.

In the race to not be left too far behind the USSR, would the US risk losing more ground by having a national hero die and his spacecraft lost because he broke a few more ribs the night before launch and decided to hide it so as to not lose his spot should fame come?

If Yeager has been disqualified from Mercury because he was a rule breaking hot-dog, I wouldn't have an issue.  But he met all of the requirements for the programme except for having a college degree. 

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The astronaut would possibly have had to do their own math for re-entry. This meant they had to have math skills at a high level.

[onlinebiker]

Chuck Yeager was the first pilot who intentional flew past the speed of sound in level flight and lived to tell about it.

A few pilots likely flew at or just above speed of sound unintentionally during dives in WWII, and lived to tell about it. a few more pilots intended to fly past speed of sound in dives and in level flight after WWII, but before Yeager, and a few may have succeeded, but didn’t live to tell.

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The US produced well over a million military pilots during WWII,  plenty of them became test pilots afterwards.  Except for publicity purposes because he is the pilot who happen to be there when the X-1 broke the sound barrier, how does Yeager fit the bill particularly well amongst that large pool?

But against his being there when the sound barrier was broken must be set the fact that he was only there because he broke regulations and hid a debilitating previous rib injury to be there.  This potentially endangered both the effort and the valuable experimental aircraft.

In the race to not be left too far behind the USSR, would the US risk losing more ground by having a national hero die and his spacecraft lost because he broke a few more ribs the night before launch and decided to hide it so as to not lose his spot should fame come?

If Yeager has been disqualified from Mercury because he was a rule breaking hot-dog, I wouldn't have an issue.  But he met all of the requirements for the programme except for having a college degree. 

Boru

He stepped on a few toes on the way to the top and pissed more than a few people off. He said himself that if he had been a bit more diplomatic and politic it would have been easier on him. He damned near never got his star - except for the pull if Jackie Cochrane who thought the world of General Yeager back when he was a junior officer - and had major political pull....


Low friends in high places and all that....

[Fake Messiah]

Kim Ki-duk - Korean film director dies of COVID-19. I remember watching some of his movies, like 'Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ... and Spring,' which was pretty good.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Cliche to Busan"?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister, dead of COVID at 62.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Checks lists.

[whew]

[arewethereyet]

Charlie Pride - 86 of COVID complications.

[Apollo]

James Flynn — discoverer of eponymous Flynn effect—rising IQ scores for century.