The Right Stuff

30 Replies to “The Right Stuff”

1. It’s strange, I never thought he would die.

   What an incredible life he lived, and what he did for his country. An incredible man and American.

   1. Grok, yes us’n Dutch are like that:-)))

      1. Yeah, but especially the religious ones. I’ve met a lot of Dutch Christians. Nice folks, but a little zealous, bless their hearts.

         1. My most beloved HS girlfriend was Dutch Christian Reformed … and since I wasn’t part of her “people” … I never stood a chance. She was best described by Tom Petty …

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNMT4AYf6Xo

            Baby, time meant nothin’, anything seemed real
            Yeah, you could kiss like fire and you made me feel
            Like every word you said was meant to be
            No, it couldn’t been that easy to forget about me

2. fearless.

3. “Is that a man?”

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il1x-bSkAZI

   Farewell, sir, and we thank you.

4. A living legend, who has truthfully been there, done that.
   Read his biography years ago. All that, and still modest and humble.

5. Ain’t that a man?
   I spell M
   A, child
   N
   That represents man
   No B
   O, child
   Y

   1. I’ve never made out the “No B” phrase, despite hearing the song approximately 2,434,938 times.
      Great tune, thanks for that.

   2. My tribute to Yeager …

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8vY3vAbAdQ

      My favorite “MAN song” of all time. The only time I’ve ever called for more cowbell !

      1. RIP Chuck Yeager.
         I once heard the “blast”–
         was totally amazed how loud it was!

         Chicago T.A :
         They were so young in that vid!
         Saw them in concert a few yrs ago.

         1. Some seriously talented musicians. Always loved Peter Cetera’s unique voice. BTW … never in that video did we get a frontal view of Cetera … only the side profile. Too few cameras back in the day.

6. can only imagine what he would think of the snowflakes of today .

   I salute you sir.

7. Time wipes us away.
   Kinda though he would live forever too.

8. RIP Chuck Yeager! You earned it!!

9. General Yeager proved the distance between a courageous man of history and a could’ve been with a cracked rib can be as short as a sawed off broom stick handle… Of course that was back in the day when men weren’t an endangered species in California and attached wings to rockets for fun. I’m sure Glennis will be happy to see her guy again and no doubt will hold him to her hard ‘n fast rule of living in the present not the past. With the greatest of Honors General rest in peace.

10. Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
    and danced the skies on laughtered-silver wings.
    RIP

11. Yeager was IN The Right Stuff. He played the bartender at Pancho’s Place.

12. An amazing man. We owe him.

13. The Greatest of Americans.

    He “liked” one of my tweets once (I had said he was a hero or something). The guy who broke the sound barrier and knew one of the Wright brothers liked my tweet! I was on Cloud Nine for like a week!

14. RIP Chuck Yeager. You and your ilk were heroes to me in my youth, and exemplars of the human spirit for growth and exploration as I’ve aged.

    1. Yup.

       When I was younger, I read just about every book about space and flight testing that I could lay my hands on. I became familiar with people like Scott Crossfield (I read his autobiography while I was in high school), Mel Apt, and Ivan Kinchloe.

       Their exploits and achievements inspired me to study engineering.

15. In his 1986 memoirs, Yeager recalled with disgust that “atrocities were committed by both sides”, and he said he went on a mission with orders from the Eighth Air Force to “strafe anything that moved.”[22][23] During the mission briefing, he whispered to Major Donald H. Bochkay, “If we are going to do things like this, we sure as hell better make sure we are on the winning side.”[22][23] Yeager said, “I’m certainly not proud of that particular strafing mission against civilians. But it is there, on the record and in my memory.”[24]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager

16. Godspeed (perhaps exceeding Mach 4), General!

17. Yeager continued to test all sorts of aircraft after his famous flight in Glamorous Glennis. Later, as I recall, he headed the USAF’s test pilot school. He even served in Viet Nam in the mid-1960s and flew a number of missions while there.

18. News video of his flight.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_rFAo358bU&feature=emb_logo

    It was pilots like him that inspired me to become a pilot, my son also. My hero.

19. I read his first 2 books. I could not put down the first one!!
    He will be in my heart for ever.
    DJ

20. A great American and a member of the “Greatest Generation” . That last title says it all and it is sad to say that it is unlikely that we’ll ever see people of their stature again. RIP, sir.

21. RIP Chuck Yeager.
    The epitome of an American Hero.
    When ever I think of the American “can do” attitude, it’s people like Chuck Yeager who come to mind.

22. SadIy, the West is running out of such men.

    Now we are surrounded by soy-Iatte pansies who are afraid to say anything in case they offend someone, or they are keeping quiet so they can hear any conversation around them; ready to pounce upon anyone guiIty of wrong-think.