Chuck Yeager Quotes About Flight

Quotes about: Flight

• If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

  Chuck Yeager

  Want, Pilots, Aviation

• There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

  Chuck Yeager

  Pilots, Aviation, Flight

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

• After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."

  Chuck Yeager

  Mistake, Airplane, Men

  "50 years later, Yeager proves he still has 'the right stuff'" by Charles Feldman, www.cnn.com. October 14, 1997.

• Leveling off at 42,000 feet, I had thirty percent of my fuel, so I turned on rocket chamber three and immediately reached .96 Mach. I noticed that the faster I got, the smoother the ride. Suddenly the Mach needle began to fluctuate. It went up to .965 Mach - then tipped right off the scale ... We were flying supersonic. And it was a smooth as a baby's bottom; Grandma could be sitting up there sipping lemonade.

  Chuck Yeager

  Baby, Grandma, Feet

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

• Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

  Chuck Yeager

  Acting, Hey, Aviation

• As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We got it above mach one, and once we got it above the speed of sound, then you have supersonic flow over the whole airplane, so you have no more shock waves on it that are causing buffeting...You really don't think about the outcome of any kind of a flight, whether it's combat, or any other kinds of flights, because you really have no control over it.

  Chuck Yeager

  Airplane, Thinking, Flow

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 1, 1991.

• You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of a serious situation. That’s the way the X-1 was.

  Chuck Yeager

  Jobs, Best Job, Way

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 1, 1991.

• At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The needle of the machmeter fluctuated at this reading momentarily, then passed off the scale. Assuming that the off-scale reading remained linear, it is estimated that 1.05 Mach was attained at this time.

  Chuck Yeager

  Reading, Cylinders, Levels

• 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.

  Chuck Yeager

  Real, Sky, Experience

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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