Farewell to the greatest.

[Patrick Spaceman]

Farewell to the Patron Saint of TEST..

Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager
1923 - 2020

First Test Pilot in history to break the sound barrier in level flight. A long and distinguished military career of over thirty three years including becoming a fighter ace....in one day and many world records broken as a test pilot.

 

[wmk]

Gen. Charles "Chuck" Yeager was a living legend.
And living to age 97... that would be the last of his many achievements.

BRIGADIER GENERAL CHARLES E. "CHUCK" YEAGER

Brig. Gen. Charles E. (Chuck) Yeager was the director of Aerospace Safety for the Air Force Inspection and Safety Center, a separate operating agency located at Norton Air Force Base, San Bernardino,

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[marcsand2]

 

[Richard Bong]

Farewell to the Patron Saint of TEST..

Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager
1923 - 2020

First Test Pilot in history to break the sound barrier in level flight. A long and distinguished military career of over thirty three years including becoming a fighter ace....in one day and many world records broken as a test pilot.

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His calm and collected voice under stress over comms is the ideal that every pilot and air controller strives to achieve. A great pilot and a great man.

 

[Thugari]

If angels have test pilots, he found his squadron. R.I.P "Chuck" Yeager