Chuck Yeager Quotes

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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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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This is a first-time event, and we're looking forward to it.

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He was in very bad weather and his airplane broke up.

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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.

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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.

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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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We have a lot of events coming up, such as Tennessee Week for the Animals in October. We work closely with the Maryville Animal Shelter, which has been just great.

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The secret to my success was that somehow I always managed to live to fly another day.

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Never wait for trouble.

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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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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.

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Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always high priority in whatever I was doing.

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When it started, I had about 20,000 pilots donate their aircraft and fuel so we could fly 1 million kids by Dec. 17, 2003 (the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers first flight), ... I flew the millionth one at the Nevada County Airport.

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Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

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He had a program called Free Spirit, ... He split 1 million four ways between people who didn't conform to the normal. I did a couple of slow rolls with the X-1 (the plane in which he broke the sound barrier), and I guess he thought that qualified.

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

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