Chuck Yeager, pilot who broke the sound barrier, dies at 97

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Carlos Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 30981 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157	Message 2063177 - Posted: 8 Dec 2020, 12:57:20 UTC Under the definition of the Right Stuff, Chuck Yeager. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air... Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark or even eagle flew -- And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. ID: 2063177 · Reply Quote

rob smith Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22666 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380	Message 2063181 - Posted: 8 Dec 2020, 13:34:08 UTC If ever there was a man who possessed "The Right Stuff" it was Chuck. A sad loss, but he achieved much and will be remembered Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? ID: 2063181 · Reply Quote

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W-K 666 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19491 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67	Message 2063227 - Posted: 9 Dec 2020, 0:54:08 UTC - in response to Message 2063177. R.I.P. Under the definition of the Right Stuff, Chuck Yeager. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air... Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark or even eagle flew -- And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. High Flight by Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr. an American pilot with the RCAF, died on 11 December 1941 during a training flight from the airfield near Scopwick, Lincolnshire. ID: 2063227 · Reply Quote

Lynn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123	Message 2063236 - Posted: 9 Dec 2020, 5:13:07 UTC - in response to Message 2063227. R.I.P. ID: 2063236 · Reply Quote

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