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Charles \'Chuck\' Yeager


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The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.

General Charles 'Chuck' Yeager, USAF

Eleven combat victories in WWII. A line he repeated several times, describing his 6 November 1944 sighting a German jet. In a twitter post on 8 November 2018 he continues:

“I was first in my group to shoot down an Me262. He was on final — not very sportsmanlike — but what the hell?”

Chuck Yeager in WWII

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Leveling off at 42,000 feet, I had thirty percent of my fuel, so I turned on rocket chamber three and immediately reached .96 Mach. I noticed that the faster I got, the smoother the ride. Suddenly the Mach needle began to fluctuate. It went up to .965 Mach — then tipped right off the scale … We were flying supersonic. And it was a smooth as a baby's bottom; Grandma could be sitting up there sipping lemonade.

General Charles 'Chuck' Yeager

Regards first supersonic flight. In his cleverly titled 1986 autobiography Yeager: An Autobiography

Glamorous Glennis

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Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

General Charles 'Chuck' Yeager

First radio transmission after going supersonic for the first time, a coded message indicating success, 1947.

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It took a damned instrument meter to tell me what I'd done. After all the anticipation to achieve this moment, it really was a letdown. There should’ve been a bump in the road, something to let you know that you had just punched a nice, clean hole through the sonic barrier. The Ughknown was a poke through Jell-O. Later on, I realized that this mission had to end in a letdown because the real barrier wasn’t in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

General Charles 'Chuck' Yeager

Yeager: An Autobiography, 1985.

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As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We got it above mach one, and once we got it above the speed of sound, then you have supersonic flow over the whole airplane, so you have no more shock waves on it that are causing buffeting…You really don’t think about the outcome of any kind of a flight, whether it's combat, or any other kinds of flights, because you really have no control over it… You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of serious situations. And that's the way the X-1 was.

General Charles 'Chuck' Yeager

Regards the first supersoninc flight, interview, 1 February 1991

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