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Chuck Yeager [1923-0] American

Rank: 102
Aviator, Test pilot

Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager is a former United States Air Force officer and record-setting test pilot. In 1947, he became the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.

Chance, Fear, Knowledge, Space

Quote	Tags	Rank
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.		101
Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.		102
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.	Chance	103
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.		104
There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.		105
Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.		106
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.	Fear	107
The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.		108
Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.	Knowledge	109
Never wait for trouble.		110
If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.		111
What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.		112
In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.	Space	113
It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.		114
It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the only one who can help me.		115
When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.		116

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