6 Quotes & Sayings By Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager was a fighter pilot in World War II and later a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force. He was the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound and is a member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame. Yeager wrote nine books on flying, two on being a test pilot, and numerous articles for national magazines on aviation topics.

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The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day. Chuck Yeager
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In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since. Chuck Yeager
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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 Yeager
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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. Chuck Yeager
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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 Yeager