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IlliniRacer
10-14-04, 05:42 PM
...They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier. "

:thumbup: 57 years ago today :thumbup:

linky (http://www.edwards.af.mil/history/docs_html/people/yeager_biography.html)
Wally
10-14-04, 06:28 PM
God bless Chuck Yeager!! :thumbup:
sadams
10-15-04, 07:25 AM
Popped in the DVD "The Right Stuff" and sat back and watched Ole Chuck as Fred the bartender at Pancho's.
cart7
10-15-04, 11:19 AM
A true American hero. :thumbup:
DaveL
10-15-04, 11:24 AM
Hey Ridley, ya got any Beamons?
Wheel-Nut
10-15-04, 11:55 AM
Hey Ridley, ya got any Beamons?

http://store1.yimg.com/I/oryans_1810_212524
nrc
10-15-04, 12:03 PM
I wouldn't be surprised if Yeager has already called to ask about flying Spaceship One.
pchall
10-15-04, 12:09 PM
A true American hero. :thumbup:

And he did it on about $3500 a year as a junior officer.