[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

A real hero tells it like it is.

[ClearBlueSky]

God Bless, and Clear Skies to you, Chuck! They don't make them like that anymore. He epitomizes the 'Right Stuff'!

[Parley Baer]

Yes a real hero. So few these days. Parley

[Blood of Tyrants]

At 79, this makes Nolan Ryan and Bruce Matthews look like beginners who quit because they couldn't take it. Maybe he will run for the senate next.

[Finny]

Some priceless Yeager quotes:

"My legacy, I suppose, is speed. But looking back, I don't think many people save a lot of time by moving faster from one point to the next, because from the time you're born until the time you die, it's pretty cut and dried. You have to take advantage of time, not speed."

--(I think I found the above quote in his first book, "Yeager," though I don't remember -- I just know I wrote it down when I found it.)

"Rules are for people who aren't willing to make up their own."

-- from Gen. Yeager's SPLENDID second book, "Press On," a super-dooper delightful and at times side-splittingly-funny read.

And of course the immortal,

"There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots."

-- my husband, an aviation artist, swears that this is a Yeager quote ... if it isn't, it should be!!

I LOVE Gen. Chuck Yeager. He is a true blue American hero -- him and Bud Anderson.

-- Finfreak

[LasVegasMac]

A Man's Man - a Hero's Hero.

This guy is the real deal - we need more like him!

A fitting end that his wingman was there - Maj. Gen. Joe Engle. Two warriors that set the example for all others to follow.

I had the extreme pleasure of shaking the hand of Gen. Yeager at, "The Gathering of Eagles" - held at Nellis AFB, aka, "The Home of the Fighter Pilot."

I was speechless - and kick myself in the butt for it.

The boy arrived in the F-20 Tiger Shark - Northrop's answer to the F-16 - one of two operational prototypes at the time. How much faith did Northrop have in the "old Dude" ? Good airplane - designed mostly to be an export. Because the USAF did not buy it, foreign countries also declined. Too bad.

We are fortunate to have had Gen. Yeager as a military member and his continuing support after he "retired" from active duty. This boy loved to fly - and he was very good at it.

LVM

[Nakota]

What ever happened to Glamorous Glennis, the woman, not the airplane?

[Tango Whiskey Papa]

A big Sierra Hotel to the best driver to ever handle a pole.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Here's a good hi-rez picture from the airshow.