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From the desk of Gen. Chuck Yeager: November 20, 2006 To my Fellow Americans, Congressman Duncan Hunter is the best candidate for President of the United States of America that I know - he has integrity, tenacity, courage, and diplomacy. He is intelligent and thoughtful, does his research, and acts on it. I have known Congressman Duncan Hunter for over 35 years. Duncan served his country in the Army and is a Vietnam vet. In Vietnam, he served in one of the most dangerous outfits - the 173rd Airborne Brigade and the 75th Army Rangers.... Chuck Yeager

The F-104 Starfighter that famed test pilot Chuck Yeager once flew is now a jet car. The new owners found the fuselage of the one-time record-breaking plane in a scrap yard. They've rebuilt the fighter as a car, in hopes of setting a new land speed record of 800 miles per hour. The current record is 763, held by a British pilot. The North American Eagle is on display in Palmdale, California, home of Edwards Air Force Base, where Yeager once flew. The car will be tested next month, with a target date of July 2007 for the record attempt.

Chalmers H. "Slick" Goodlin, a test pilot who took the X-1 aircraft to near-supersonic speeds but became a footnote in aviation history when he lost his cockpit seat — and the right to shatter the sound barrier for the first time — to a young Chuck Yeager, has died. He was 82. Goodlin, who flew military planes for three countries, died of cancer Oct. 20 at his home in West Palm Beach, Fla., his family announced. After 26 test flights in the X-1, Goodlin was on the brink of making the first supersonic flight when he resigned over a contract...

Cultural CommunistsBy Joseph YeagerFrontPageMagazine.com | May 9, 2003 In two provocative and convincing articles recently published on Frontpage Magazine, David Horowitz offers a new conception of the anti-American Left, and indeed, a new appellation as well: neo-communism, or neo-coms for short.  Aside from identifying and naming this increasingly dangerous political force, the most important aspect of Horowitz's essays is his explanaiton of how anarchists--a powerful element within the neo-com set--are also essentially Communists.For the purposes of review, Horowitz's argument is as follows.  He asserts that the primary goal of the anarchist neo-coms is to destroy the United States, which they regard as...

Chuey - 04/27/2003 10:38AM Airwar Stuff Went to a fund raiser at the Sportsmen's club last nite. Chuck Yeager gave a presentation and showed a video of himself flying an F15E. We auctioned some books and videos and made some bucks for our youth fund. Now, for you airwar enthusiasts this may not be news, or, you might even dispute it but it was news to me. Yeager said that 11% of the fighter pilots accounted for 90% of German aircraft kills from the American standpoint. He said they studied it and found that the vast majority of these pilots...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier Saturday for what he said was the last time, more than a half-century after he became the first person to accomplish the feat. Yeager, 79, split the air with a sonic boom as he opened an air show that drew thousands of fans to the desert base. Yeager took an F-15 Eagle to just over 30,000 feet on his last supersonic flight, capping a 60-year career.