Chuck Yeager Quotes:
Ocupation: Test pilot
Life: b. February 13, 1923
Birthday: February 13
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.
source: "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 1, 1991. 
topic: Horizontal
