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R.I.P. - what a bad ass. Such a stupid thing to remember at this point, but; Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer on Commodore 64. Enthralled me as a young lad.
he was one of the big 5 in aviation/space legends.
chuck yeager
alan shepard (first american in space and apollo 14 commander)
john glenn (first american to orbit the earth)
neil armstrong (no intro needed for this legend)
john young (first space shuttle commander and apollo 16 commander. he's also the only human to fly and pilot 4 spacecraft! gemini, apollo command module in apollo 10, apollo lunar module in apollo 16, and the space shuttle in STS-1 and STS-9)
the only people who will even come close to these legends in the future would be whomever lands on the moon first in the artemis lunar program and then whomever lands on mars.
All Western White Men. We’ve accomplished so many great things in human history. Where would civilization be without our grit, intelligence, hard work and perseverance?
You know they're picking a woman. Just cuz. Not because she's better, or she's the best choice for the mission. They're going to pick a woman because people think twitter is an accurate cross section of the U.S.
Sending women has been seriously proposed for mars missions because they take up less space, are lower mass, consume less food/water/air. Over a long duration mission these differences are non-trivial.
That said, it does feel like a decision made for other reasons, looking for justification.
read his great book “Yeager” an Autobiography , The book “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe, an Outstanding and a FUN read. The movie The Right Stuff was ok.
I had the sort of displeasure of meeting the man. As accomplished as he was his personality was about as endearing as a board of pine. I am nearly certain his autobiography was ghostwritten and his family life was nothing commendable. Truth is that some men are born great, some become great, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Chuck was mostly the latter, with a bit of the former.
And maybe someday, first man outside our solar system, though to get a living person out that far would either require an absurdly long journey (Voyager took 35 years), or technology so advanced it is basically magic (gravity manipulation/ folding space)
Haven't seen it yet, thanks for sharing! I like a lot of his 80's style synthwave stuff. Mitch Murder is great. https://youtu.be/_hF5_o-lYDA my favorite
Wtf I'm just learning he died rn what a shame. Im going to refuse any covid tests even post mortem. I still haven't and will not ever take a covid test. (Unless under an alias and they never see my face or real ID). I don't want to get on some list of infected cattle to cull.
What pisses me off is I just had a classmate die from a terrible form of cancer and I am so pissed for her family the way she had to spend the last 10 months of her life were in this medical tyranny BS. Imagine needing medical care in a time like this and you're screwed because of a global psy-op. Shit I don't have to imagine I'm living through it now!
This week is the 2nd ultrasound for my first child. I don't think I'll be allowed inside and this infurates me. I'm fucking sick of this shit I want to exile these people.
After the war, Yeager became a test pilot of many types of aircraft, including experimental rocket-powered aircraft. As the first human to officially break the sound barrier, on October 14, 1947, he flew the experimental Bell X-1 at Mach 1 and an altitude of 45,000 feet (13,700 m), for which he won both the Collier and Mackay trophies in 1948. He then went on to break several other speed and altitude records.
Yeager later commanded fighter squadrons and wings in Germany, as well as in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. In recognition of the outstanding performance ratings of those units, he was promoted to brigadier general in 1969, retiring on March 1, 1975. Yeager's three war active duty flying career spans more than 30 years and has taken him to many parts of the world, including the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War.
Oh fuck no! I tried to be an AF pilot because of him. They told me I had to be an engineer when I said Yeager had a high school degree and retired a Brigadier General.
RIP Chuck. I am sorry you had to see the U.S. fall from grace and become what it is now.
There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at mach one on the meter. Seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. Then they built a small plane, the X1, to try and break the sound barrier and men came to the high desert of California to ride it. They were called test pilots, and no one knew their names.
Except Chuck.
This is crazy, I had a busy of mine pass away from a heroin overdose.
We get up through high school, I went off to the military and unfortunately he got into some bad stuff.
One of my greatest memories I have not only with him but in my life. Is the day we went up to Nevada city and ended up at a gun range with my buddy’s grandpa.
That’s where I met Chuck. And didn’t know the extent of how important this man was.
Sad to here we lost a great one.
Rest easy chuck, I was just only 13-14 when I met you.
SpaceX's Starship prototype is doing a 12.5km/41,000 ft first high altitude test flight. Those who don't know that will be able to hold 100ppl for Moon, Mars, any landable body in the solar system. When watching tomorrow I'll be thinking of Chuck for sure!!!!
God bless Chuck Yeager. I read something, don't know how true but it makes sense, they the way pilots talk in that relaxed way is a tribute to Yaeger's manner of speaking; his WV accent.
God damnit - people say he was an asshole, he wasn’t, I met the guy he inspired me to be what I am today. I wrote reports about him in middle school and high school. He was the epitome of being as competent as they come. The guy knew his craft backward and forwards and had no room for bullshiters proof that not having a formal education doesn’t make you dumb. Man was a fucking legend. As manly as John Wayne pretended to be Chuck Yeager was. Be like Chuck.
Damn I literally started reading The Right Stuff again for the second time a few days ago...
This guy was such a badass that he broke the sound barrier for the first time with broken ribs and didn't tell anyone cause he wasn't a bitch and wanted to do it
Oh, they exist you just aren't allowed to hear about them. For people Like Gen Yeager God broke the mold. But the image of the man helped to mold many in his likeness. Your likely to see a few of them soon.
Damn. As a yute back in my school days, the first biography I wrote was about Chuck Yeager. Watched The Right Stuff about 200 times as a kid. An American legend. Godspeed Chuck.
And, by George, they are old. But how can this be?
Only yesterday you were in flying school.
Time is a thief. You have been robbed.
And what have you to show for it?
A pilot—twenty years a pilot—a senior pilot.
But what of it—just a pilot.
Then the voice of the stewardess breaks in on your reverie.
The trip is running full—eighty-four passengers
Can she begin to serve dinner to the passengers?
The passengers—oh yes, the passengers.
You noticed the line of them coming aboard—
the businessmen, the young mothers
with the children in tow, the old couple,
the two priests, the four dogfaces.
A thousand times you have watched them
file aboard and a thousand times disembark.
They always seem a little gayer after the landing
than before the take-off.
Beyond doubt they are always somewhat apprehensive aloft.
But why do they continuously come up here
in the dark sky despite their apprehension?
You have often wondered about that.
You look down at your hands again
and suddenly it comes to you.
They come because they trust you—
you the pilot.
They turn over their lives
and their loved ones and their hopes and dreams
to you for safekeeping.
To be a pilot means to be one of the trusted.
They pray in the storm
that you are skillful and strong and wise.
To be a pilot is to hold life in your hands—
to be worthy of faith.
No, you have not been robbed.
You aren’t “just a pilot.” There is no such thing
as “just a pilot.”
I got to meet him once, I was only in 1st grade but my dad took me out of school and we drove for a solid 5 hours to where he was giving a talk. I have a signed model of his Bell-X1, while I don’t remember much from meeting him I do remember that he inspired me to get into science and engineering and actually took the time to talk to a 1st grader in a room full of much more interesting people. RIP to a real American hero.
R.I.P. - what a bad ass. Such a stupid thing to remember at this point, but; Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer on Commodore 64. Enthralled me as a young lad.
omg I remember that. I still have my Commodore in storage. I need to dig that thing out.
Lol. I have my Commodore 64 in storage as well. Ran a fun warez board and met a lot of great people.
Good lord I love my fellow C64 using pedes!
That makes another one of us... so we now have several C64 TheDonald pedes in here lol
Telengard and Zork ftw! Hello sailor!
Not sure I trust that link from a new account that’s spammed that link in all 4 of of their comments
Your right. This ones showing up a lot tonight with the same link, multiple new accounts.
same
I had com 64. I begged my poor immigrant parents I think in 1985, after walking for hours in NYC we finally found one. It was my first love.
LOAD "*",8 pede! Jumpman and Impossible Mission all the way.
C64 was great back in the day.
RIP Chuck
he was one of the big 5 in aviation/space legends.
chuck yeager
alan shepard (first american in space and apollo 14 commander)
john glenn (first american to orbit the earth)
neil armstrong (no intro needed for this legend)
john young (first space shuttle commander and apollo 16 commander. he's also the only human to fly and pilot 4 spacecraft! gemini, apollo command module in apollo 10, apollo lunar module in apollo 16, and the space shuttle in STS-1 and STS-9)
the only people who will even come close to these legends in the future would be whomever lands on the moon first in the artemis lunar program and then whomever lands on mars.
All Western White Men. We’ve accomplished so many great things in human history. Where would civilization be without our grit, intelligence, hard work and perseverance?
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...jk guys.
You know they're picking a woman. Just cuz. Not because she's better, or she's the best choice for the mission. They're going to pick a woman because people think twitter is an accurate cross section of the U.S.
Amy Shumer's vagine probably more accurately represents the US, at least from a topographical standpoint.
This has been deemed impossible. His pencil neck would never survive the Gs at liftoff. Sad.
This has been deemed impossible. His pencil neck would never survive the Gs at liftoff. Sad.
More of a reason to send him
I second this motion. So he can achieve what his fellow comrad Lakia the space dog achieved.
Sending women has been seriously proposed for mars missions because they take up less space, are lower mass, consume less food/water/air. Over a long duration mission these differences are non-trivial.
That said, it does feel like a decision made for other reasons, looking for justification.
There are small men that have those advantages. The fact of menstruation should disqualify, period. You know, because it attracts space bears.
Ha! Fucking space bears. LMAO.
They can smell the menstruation even in the vacuum of space.
Didn't Chuck basically train all of those other guys at one point or another?
Maybe the Air Force guys.
But he shot down 5 airplanes in 1 day!
Also, shot down a German jet fighter.
read his great book “Yeager” an Autobiography , The book “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe, an Outstanding and a FUN read. The movie The Right Stuff was ok.
His Auto Bio is SOOOO good.
Only bad part is that its sorta depressing in the context of when I finished it is was like, "What the hell have I done with my life"!
The man should be on our currency
I had the sort of displeasure of meeting the man. As accomplished as he was his personality was about as endearing as a board of pine. I am nearly certain his autobiography was ghostwritten and his family life was nothing commendable. Truth is that some men are born great, some become great, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Chuck was mostly the latter, with a bit of the former.
And maybe someday, first man outside our solar system, though to get a living person out that far would either require an absurdly long journey (Voyager took 35 years), or technology so advanced it is basically magic (gravity manipulation/ folding space)
Like a machine that counts votes.
Kek
John Young if you watch any of his interviews is the absolute definition of CHAD America first mentality
For those who haven't seen it, and want the inspiration:
Mitch Murder-Ravaged Skies (Chuck Yeager Edit) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzV-5zeZlhs
For all you Right Wing Synth Wave Junkies, and in Memory of The Man who lived it.
WE STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS. SPACE IS OUR FUTURE.
Haven't seen it yet, thanks for sharing! I like a lot of his 80's style synthwave stuff. Mitch Murder is great. https://youtu.be/_hF5_o-lYDA my favorite
Those Mig-17s would chop you up in the weeds, but take them up over 20,000 ft, and they'd be your dinner.
Hours of fun with that flight simulator.
R.I.P., Sir.
DOS version on a Tandy 1000HX for me.
Same.
You really bought the farm...
Yeah I had the first pc version. Bought the farm many times!
Same. Loved it. You can still get it as abandonware.
Also spent countless hours in SWOTL.
Good link, thanks.
If they attach COVID to his death - it's war!
The whole world should be raining down ordinance over China.
Wtf I'm just learning he died rn what a shame. Im going to refuse any covid tests even post mortem. I still haven't and will not ever take a covid test. (Unless under an alias and they never see my face or real ID). I don't want to get on some list of infected cattle to cull.
What pisses me off is I just had a classmate die from a terrible form of cancer and I am so pissed for her family the way she had to spend the last 10 months of her life were in this medical tyranny BS. Imagine needing medical care in a time like this and you're screwed because of a global psy-op. Shit I don't have to imagine I'm living through it now!
This week is the 2nd ultrasound for my first child. I don't think I'll be allowed inside and this infurates me. I'm fucking sick of this shit I want to exile these people.
He went too fast.
No limits now. Godspeed!
<b>HARDCORE AMERICAN
RIP Chuck.
The Right Stuff is a really good movie.
Watching that one again soon!
angels cussing, unable to keep up
Angels frantically flapping. It will rain harder from their sweat.
Haha thanks for this humor I'm sure even chuck would laugh at that.
Few have had bigger balls than that man.
Oh fuck no! I tried to be an AF pilot because of him. They told me I had to be an engineer when I said Yeager had a high school degree and retired a Brigadier General.
RIP Chuck. I am sorry you had to see the U.S. fall from grace and become what it is now.
i was in the air force, i trained on a SJS704030 jetter. never left the ground though ;)
It feels good that vets like you are on our side
There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at mach one on the meter. Seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. Then they built a small plane, the X1, to try and break the sound barrier and men came to the high desert of California to ride it. They were called test pilots, and no one knew their names. Except Chuck.
a great book turned into a good movie with some Hollywood bullshit that couldn't ruin the story, it's such a good story.
Read Bob Hoover's autobiography and then Yeager's and read how each one tells the story of how they met.
This is crazy, I had a busy of mine pass away from a heroin overdose.
We get up through high school, I went off to the military and unfortunately he got into some bad stuff.
One of my greatest memories I have not only with him but in my life. Is the day we went up to Nevada city and ended up at a gun range with my buddy’s grandpa.
That’s where I met Chuck. And didn’t know the extent of how important this man was.
Sad to here we lost a great one.
Rest easy chuck, I was just only 13-14 when I met you.
Amazing story pede! Something like that lasts a lifetime. Sorry about your friend :(
SpaceX's Starship prototype is doing a 12.5km/41,000 ft first high altitude test flight. Those who don't know that will be able to hold 100ppl for Moon, Mars, any landable body in the solar system. When watching tomorrow I'll be thinking of Chuck for sure!!!!
God bless Chuck Yeager. I read something, don't know how true but it makes sense, they the way pilots talk in that relaxed way is a tribute to Yaeger's manner of speaking; his WV accent.
3 theaters of combat. I played it a lot.
Watched it so much as a kid, I could probably write down the entire dialog from rote memory. Loved that movie.
For those that don’t remember this... The real Chuck Yeager played the bartender in the film.
"You boys want a drink?"
Then read his Auto Bio, way better
God damnit - people say he was an asshole, he wasn’t, I met the guy he inspired me to be what I am today. I wrote reports about him in middle school and high school. He was the epitome of being as competent as they come. The guy knew his craft backward and forwards and had no room for bullshiters proof that not having a formal education doesn’t make you dumb. Man was a fucking legend. As manly as John Wayne pretended to be Chuck Yeager was. Be like Chuck.
He replied to me several times on Twitter. What a fucking Chad.
Absolutely my highlights on that shithole are my reply from him, and a few likes.
The Right Stuff was great filmmaking.
Just posted somethin about this man. A true American patriot/legend.
Thank you Chuck
Damn I literally started reading The Right Stuff again for the second time a few days ago...
This guy was such a badass that he broke the sound barrier for the first time with broken ribs and didn't tell anyone cause he wasn't a bitch and wanted to do it
God bless this great Man - fair skies, and a tailwind blowing!
He was a True American and not afraid of being an alpha male ! Rest In Peace sir 🇺🇸
A man who defined an archetype. A breed of man that grows rarer by the day.
A breed of man that doesn't exist today, Sadly.
Oh, they exist you just aren't allowed to hear about them. For people Like Gen Yeager God broke the mold. But the image of the man helped to mold many in his likeness. Your likely to see a few of them soon.
Have to watch The Right Stuff now. The good one, not the new Disney abomination. Sam Shepard is the best Yeager, screw you, Disney.
I have met him a few times over the years, he was a professional asshole, and he was entitled to be.
When he broke the sound barrier, his wingman was the complete opposite; that was Bob Hoover, a perfect gentleman and superb pilot.
Mach 1 on point, godspeed sir! 🛩
His dying wish was for Biden to concede.
God bless you, Chuck.
Oh shit. The General died?
Damn. As a yute back in my school days, the first biography I wrote was about Chuck Yeager. Watched The Right Stuff about 200 times as a kid. An American legend. Godspeed Chuck.
He pushed the limits at risk of certain death, now we are told no risk is worth it. Bring back risk in honor of Yeager
Rest in peace Mr. Yeager. You did well.
You are at cruising altitude.
The westering sun is pink on the disc.
Your eye flicks the gauges.
The engines are contented.
Another day—another dollar.
You look down at your hands on the wheel.
They are veined and hard and brown.
Tonight you notice they look a little old.
And, by George, they are old. But how can this be?
Only yesterday you were in flying school.
Time is a thief. You have been robbed.
And what have you to show for it?
A pilot—twenty years a pilot—a senior pilot.
But what of it—just a pilot.
Then the voice of the stewardess breaks in on your reverie.
The trip is running full—eighty-four passengers
Can she begin to serve dinner to the passengers?
The passengers—oh yes, the passengers.
You noticed the line of them coming aboard— the businessmen, the young mothers with the children in tow, the old couple, the two priests, the four dogfaces.
A thousand times you have watched them file aboard and a thousand times disembark.
They always seem a little gayer after the landing than before the take-off.
Beyond doubt they are always somewhat apprehensive aloft.
But why do they continuously come up here in the dark sky despite their apprehension?
You have often wondered about that.
You look down at your hands again and suddenly it comes to you.
They come because they trust you— you the pilot.
They turn over their lives and their loved ones and their hopes and dreams to you for safekeeping.
To be a pilot means to be one of the trusted.
They pray in the storm that you are skillful and strong and wise.
To be a pilot is to hold life in your hands— to be worthy of faith.
No, you have not been robbed.
You aren’t “just a pilot.” There is no such thing as “just a pilot.”
Your job is a trust.
The years have been a trust.
You have been one of the trusted.
Who could be more?
(Gill Rob Wilson "One of the Trusted)
*Checks in-flight menu...
F
Rest In Peace. Soar in the clouds. Ever upwards, sir.
RIP. Good sir your a legend.
Few have had bigger balls than that man.
Crazy I was just thinking yesterday - wow Chuck Yeager is still alive. - Godspeed American classic.
Few have had bigger balls than that man.
I got to meet him once, I was only in 1st grade but my dad took me out of school and we drove for a solid 5 hours to where he was giving a talk. I have a signed model of his Bell-X1, while I don’t remember much from meeting him I do remember that he inspired me to get into science and engineering and actually took the time to talk to a 1st grader in a room full of much more interesting people. RIP to a real American hero.
RIP , fly free!
I think he was my greatest hero, now that you mention it. I'm glad he was with us for so long. Will do something special this week in honor of him.
A brave man. Godspeed
I bought every flight sim with his name on it.