Chuck Yeager
February 13 1923 ~ December 7 2020
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Tuesday, December 08, 2020
Monday, October 15, 2012
Still got the right stuff...
How perfectly fitting, that on the same day that Felix Baumgartner took his 24-mile high skydive, becoming the first person to break the sound barrier in freefall with only a high-tech suit for protection...
...retired Air Force Brigadier General Charles "Chuck" Yeager celebrated the 65th anniversary of the very first supersonic flight - which Yeager accomplished in the X-1 - by flying faster than sound again at the age of 89.
There ain't enough accomplishments of daring these days, it sadly seems. Reading stuff like this, gives me great hope.
