Chuck Yeager quotes
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“You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.”
-- Chuck YeagerSource : Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam
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“I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.”
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“Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.”
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“You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.”
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“If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.”
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“If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.”
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“What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.”
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“There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.”
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“The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.”
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“The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.”
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“The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best.”
-- Chuck YeagerSource : Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam
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“I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.”
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“It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.”
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“The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.”
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“In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.”
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“Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.”
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“Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.”
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“That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going to wipe out half a dozen people one of these days, and that will be the end of it.”
-- Chuck YeagerSource : "Chuck Yeager pulls no punches on space travel". Interview with Thom Patterson, lightyears.blogs.cnn.com. June 5, 2012.
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“I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.”
-- Chuck YeagerSource : Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam
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“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 YeagerSource : Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam
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“At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.”
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“Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.”
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“After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."”
-- Chuck YeagerSource : "50 years later, Yeager proves he still has 'the right stuff'" by Charles Feldman, www.cnn.com. October 14, 1997.
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“There is no such thing as a natural born pilot. Whatever my aptitudes or talents, becoming a proficient pilot was hard work, really a lifetime's learning experience. For the best pilots, flying is an obsession, the one thing in life they must do continually. The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best. Experience is everything. The eagerness to learn how and why every piece of equipment works is everything. And luck is everything, too.”
-- Chuck Yeager
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