Chuck Yeager - RIP

lurkio · 8 Dec 2020 at 07:45

Well 2020 just keeps on giving

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55225903

RIP

CaptainRAVE · 8 Dec 2020 at 07:47

97, not a bad run!

hyperseven · 8 Dec 2020 at 08:07

Spent many a happy hour in your flight sim on the C64, bye fella.

Hades · 8 Dec 2020 at 09:48

hyperseven said:
Spent many a happy hour in your flight sim on the C64, bye fella.

Same. RIP.

robfosters · 8 Dec 2020 at 09:52

Lived a life on the edge and made 97. I doubt he’d have too many complaints. RIP.

BeeP · 8 Dec 2020 at 10:13

Bit of a shock, honestly thought he had passed years ago.

Great game and what a guy, RIP.

Chris Wilson · 8 Dec 2020 at 10:22

Sad to read this, a proper man, a fascinating career.

Uther · 8 Dec 2020 at 10:33

What a life he led! Good innings though.

Flibster · 8 Dec 2020 at 11:36

Proper hero.

Let's be honest, he's exceptionally lucky to reach that age with everything he did. WWII and Vietnam combat pilot, many years as a test pilot.

*doffs hat*

JRS · 8 Dec 2020 at 14:14

Flibster said:
Proper hero.

Let's be honest, he's exceptionally lucky to reach that age with everything he did. WWII and Vietnam combat pilot, many years as a test pilot.

*doffs hat*

Indeed. He survived a lot of entertaining opportunities for death over his career.

RIP Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager.

Thekwango · 8 Dec 2020 at 14:21

From his early years as a fighter ace in World War II to the last time he broke the sound barrier in 2012 - at the age of 89

**** me, at 89...what a man, balls of steel. RIP

Kelt · 8 Dec 2020 at 14:22

A true hero and legend.

R.I.P

Ugley_Matt · 8 Dec 2020 at 16:55

Apparently the reason they had so much trouble breaking the speed of sound was due to the induced drag of his huge balls of steel

The original The Right Stuff has a great section all about him.

adolf hamster · 9 Dec 2020 at 11:27

wow, like many i assumed he'd passed a while back, which isn't an unreasonable assumption for people in his line of work.

MagicBoy · 9 Dec 2020 at 11:30

RIP a legend. 97 is an achievement having fully lived life and stared death in the face numerous times.

Spent many an hour playing Chuck Yeager's Air Combat on my 486 back in the day...

HEADRAT · 9 Dec 2020 at 11:31

RIP, many hours spent playing Chuck Yeager's Air Combat on the PC circa 1991

Loagi · 9 Dec 2020 at 12:05

And he truely despised British people - with a real passion.

Josey Wales · 9 Dec 2020 at 20:14

hyperseven said:
Spent many a happy hour in your flight sim on the C64, bye fella.

Yes I remember that very well