Chuck Yeager: America's Supersonic Man
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Plsss 🙏🙏 do biography of skanderbeg
Make a video on the Mad Baron
dude, your video's are simply amazing.
@@PleiadianDreams thanks
@@drinmaliqi9531 welcome
I had the privilege to meet Chuck Yeager and Bob Hoover at a fighter squadron reunion in Ohio that my grandfather was apart of when I was a kid. He was a great and classy man with great stories. I will always thank the universe for letting our paths cross. 🇺🇸
he is an American legend...a man's man too. Total badass...the kind of guy who buries the toxic masculinity nonsense...I had heard he was a class act. glad to hear you confirm it
@@michaelfrazia4569 yeah I can definitely confirm that, and what he said in this video about his new wife was correct too. She was a total bitch to me when I tried to say hello to him but he shut her up quick and signed something for me and sat with me to talk for a bit of time before we all left to go get dinner. I get misty eyed just thinking about it he was a really admirable person.
@@brianbell6556 he sure was...I was a little kid in the 70s..I was born in 74...I remember seeing Chuck in commercials probably around 78 or 79 and asking my father who he was...my father's whole family was military so he gave me the whole story about Chuck...I was probably 4 or 5 so I'm sure most of it flew over my head...I just knew he was important...I have grown to truly respect the way he stood up to things being forced down his throat for political reasons...he was a real man's man.. I wish I could have met him.
I also had the pleasure of meeting General Yeager in the early 1990's . He spoke to a group CAP cadets that I was a part of. He wife was also from my home town
I didn’t actually find this out until like 3 years before he died but chuck is my great great grandpa. My moms maiden name is Yeager . Unfortunately I never got the opportunity to meet him because I’m a military kid so I was all over the place all the time, but it’s still pretty cool in my opinion lol
Sure is!!
I think "Yeager" means "hunter" in German
Awesomeness
@@theawesomeman9821 Jäger, Yeager is the Anglicized version
@@theawesomeman9821 jager*
In 1988 while working as a manager at the national air and space Museum in Washington DC, I had the great honor of meeting General Yeager in person. He was there doing an after hours lecture around the time of the release of his book. Earlier that day The Air Force had “loaned“ him an F4 phantom so he could make a flyby during the dedication ceremony of a statue of him in Charleston West Virginia. Upon landing at Andrews Air Force Base, he came to the museum. After the lecture was over the speakers and guests were milling around the floor of the now closed museum. I had the incredible honor of escorting the general through some of the displays including standing under his Glamorous Glennis 1 on 1 and hearing him personally recount his flight including some details I never knew before. This was definitely one of the highlights of my life as a amateur aviation historian. He was truly the definition of “bigger than life“! RIP Chuck
Wow, what an amazing and fortunate experience that must have been. What I would have given to be in your shoes for something like that. He seemed like such a great soul and genuine person. Just to share a room with him would have been incredible, let alone the honour you had to do that with him.
@@newman977 he really did strike me as being a genuinely nice guy and very generous with his time. He was also very proud of his accomplishment in making that flight and rightfully so.
@@Rickinvegas thank you for sharing your story and experience with a true legend. May he rest in peace.
I met Chuck Yeager a few years back when he came to South Africa. I felt like I had actually met a real life superhero that I read about as a kid!
he was a real life hero...wish I met him...total bad ass
A few years ago!! 🤣🤣
A few years ago!! 🤣🤣
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I taught him how to swim, but I don’t mind telling you guys
"The Right Stuff" movie is one of my favorites but it's full of inaccuracies about those events. For instance, Yeager wasn't recruited for the supersonic flight the day before in Pancho's bar. He actually had been recruited by Larry Bell of Bell Aircraft along with other men to develop the X-1 plane and eventually break the sound barrier. Yeager had been in that program for several months and had flown the X-1 a number of times, reporting on its performance each time they flew it.
There are a number of inaccuracies in the movie, but that often happens when making a movie adapted from a book, even if it is supposed to be about an historical event. I have never read the book, however, though I do want to, so I don't know if the inaccuracies were present in the book. I assume they weren't, as the writer was also a journalist, and the movie, as stated above, was an adaptation.
Born in 1962 into a technologically minded farming family, General Yeager has always been a personal hero of mine. It was not until his death in 2020 that i learned his final home was only about 20 miles away! He remained active in aviation right up to his passing. A truly great American, he deserves to be remembered!
Rest in Peace General Yeager
“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
My grand father was a mechanic for Yeager and the sr-71 black bird we have a written letter from Yeager telling my grandfather that leaving him in control of mechanic duties was alway a relief cause of how squared away my grand father was. Very cool thing to hold in your hands
RIP Chuck Yeager... 😿
As a child I built every (available) model Aircraft he flew/tested.
Because of him I joined the Marine Corps after graduating in 1993, sadly, I didn't have "The Right Stuff"...
Thank you for your service.
If at first you don’t succeed….try to find “The Right Stuff” again.
Yeager's crash in Spain in his 8th mission (I think), escape by foot over the Pirinees in the winter while being shot by machine guns, and going back to a fighter plane... should / could have been shown in more details. It is quite a story.
Also, after the 104 ejection he had to close that oxigen valve while falling through the air... on his back... and his very combustible parachute did not fail. On the ground he had time before the rescuers arrive, and he snapped the parachute lines by hand.... how on earth did those lines held him safely is not explained.
I highly recommend his biography -- that guy was a statistical miracle.
Or as my WW II Combat Veteran Father used to say; "He was sh!thouse lucky"
He was shot down in France and has to escape to Spain with the help of the French Resistance.
I'm surprised that no one said anything about Eren Jaeger manipulating his life
Chuck’s nephew Andrew was my history teacher and football coach freshman year of high school. Loved some of his personal stories.
chuck's niece Barbara Jean was my stepmother...
Off we go into the wild blue yonder.
All of the planes Yeager flew over the years had to have special seats constructed to accommodate his enormous set of balls.
Balls to the walls all over the place
Thank you for that imagery.
I asked for this, and Simon delivered! God bless Simon and his big smooth brain.
Wrestling demons from an experimental aircraft whilst having broken ribs. The man was gnarly.
What a legend. Its always the farm boys who do the most miraculous things.
Simon and team; can you give Irish-American pilot Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan some love? It's a great story and never gets told.
Thanks for the amazing work and hours of wasted time! Love y'all
I love the fact that you could get on practically any commercial flight in the sixties and seventies and when the pilot made the pre-flight announcements it was done with a West Virginia accent because every pilot worth their salt wanted to be Chuck Yeager!
A certain Yeager: "I'll keep moving forward, until my enemies are dead!"
In 1991 "learned to fly" with Chuck Yeager in a flight simulator on my Amiga 600 computer.
In the introduction the voice of Chuck Yeager said something like:
"So you want to learn to fly an airplane? Well, that shouldn't be a problem."
I have a drawing of his fighter “Glamorous Glen III” in my room since I was a little kid. I still look up to him as someone who inspired my interest in aviation.
One of Yeager's interesting experiences was when in 1953 a North Korean pilot defected with his Mig-15. Yeager and several others went to Japan to evaluate the plane and Yeager was one of two American test pilots to fly it and report on its handling and capabilities.
When visiting the USSR
On a test pilot s conference he talked to
Mikoyan of The MiG company (Gruevich was the other) Yeager said to
That he couldn't get the MiG-15 to break the sound barrier, no matter how steep the dive . Mikoyan turned pale and said"You dove it!?" The MiG was limited to 30 degrees down as it became unstable.
Loved this one. Chuck Yeager was a true American Badass
total badass.....a real man
At first I thought you'd made a mistake when you said the NF-104 (essentially a suped up starfighter) descended 95,000 feet after the accident. Then I looked it up and found it's service ceiling was 120,000 feet. Incredible.
I was at Edwards with my Dad in 97 and got to watch him make that flight. One of my favorite memories.
It's outrageous that Yager wasn't selected to be an astronaut simply because he didn't go to college. He was clearly the best for job.
This was probably an excuse tbh, given his provenance. Gagarin wasn’t risked on space stuff again due to propaganda, Yeager is up there in historical provenance.
Amazing man right up to the end. Great video Simon as always! Keep them coming.
Chuck and my grandfather were great friends later in life. He enjoyed coming to Cimarron, NM where my grandparents lived and I had the pleasure of meeting him back in '16. He was a stoic guy but boy did he have just the best stories about his military life.
I being from the Great State of West Virginia makes me proud because of men like Chuck Yeager. But we also have other famous people from there. Like Don Knotts, Steve Harvey, and others. Great Bio thanks.
There was a story he told in his autobiography about Jacqueline Cochrane and how he was assigned to travel with her to various Air Force bases for her to fly various aircraft. They arrive at a particular base and the base commander denied the troupe access to the base. Yeager calls then Air Force Chief of Staff General Tommy White. He then hands the phone over to the base commander. The prose reads "I've never seen anyone stand at attention while on the phone". The Colonel then says to Cochrane "You can have anything you want including the base itself." I rolled.
Thank you, Simon, for telling Yeager’s story. He was a hero of mine since I was about 7 and wanted to fly jets. He truly was a great pilot.
I can't believe you skipped over the MIG-15 test . The fact that he shotdown 2 jets and when he carried a man Pyrenees mountains
He was not the first to brake the sound barrier, he was the first to be recorded braking the sound barrier
I met General Yeager many years ago. Many of his critics speak about his arrogance; I never witness General Yeager as anything but a gentleman. He did not suffer fools.
exactly...if you don't cave to bs you are seen as arrogant...especially today....he is an American hero....period...those who criticized him were lucky to achieve a fraction of what he did for
the human race
I had the honor of meeting Gen. Yeager when he came to speak to my fellow Cadets and I at Virginia Tech in 2004.
Thanks for doing my suggestion!
He listens, I promise....
@@michaelpipkin9942 Beautiful job. Especially the opening remarks.
@@vincentsaia6545 What do you mean the opening remarks?
Sorry I'm just curious
@@michaelpipkin9942 "Picture this: You're flying 50,000 feet in the air in an experimental plane...."
Chuck Yeager is with out doubt a true Aviation hero. Also a war hero. Loved the video.
What about doing a video on Eric Brown. He flew 487 different aircraft. And tested a lot of types . He is probably the most accomplished pilot in history. He was a lad from Leith in Edinburgh.died 2016.
1:25 - Chapter 1 - Farm boy to fighter ace
2:40 - Chapter 2 - Faster than any man
5:40 - Mid roll ads
7:00 - Chapter 3 - The gateway to space
10:30 - Chapter 4 - Still flying high
13:40 - Chapter 5 - Coming in for a lading
- Chapter 6 -
Here are some more people you could cover:
1. Robin Olds was another legendary fighter pilot who severed in Europe during World War II. Later he would serve as a commander of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing and was the architect of Operation Bolo in which the North Vietnamese lost 7 MiG fighters in one day. Aside from this, Olds was known for his rebellious nature and his colorful private life.
2. Ranald S. Mackenzie was a career soldier who fought through most of the Civil War. At the Battle of Petersburg he had two fingers shot off. Later, Indians would give him the nickname "Bad Hand." Finishing the war as a Corps commander in the Army of the Potomac,. Ulysses Grant and William Sherman considered Mackenzie one of the most promising officers to come out of the war. Mackenzie was appointed colonel and given command of the 41st U.S Infantry, one of the legendary "Buffalo Soldiers" units and sent to Texas to fight the Comanche Indians. Mackenzie would fight the tribe in several battles, finally defeating them at the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon in1874. He would go on to fight in one more major battle against the Cheyenne in 1876, but he would begin to show signs of mental illness. While he continued to be promoted, by 1883 his erratic behavior could not be ignored. He was found insane and discharged from the Army in 1884 and died in obscurity just five years later.
Hey Simon, if you like doing biographies on aviation pioneers, you might consider Pancho Barnes or Jackie Cochrane. Both were aviatrix's (early word for female pilots) on par with Amelia Earhart. Both were contemporaries of Chick Yeager and lead fascinating lives, setting assorted flight records for speed and altitude. Pancho later operated the bar near Edwards AFB that was depicted in The Right Stuff. Cochrane was a bit more flamboyant, marrying a rich man who could finance her flight activities since women couldn't be test pilots back then.
One thing not mentioned during his time in WW2 was his shootdown of the dreaded Messerschmidt 262 in 1945
I’ve always loved planes, rockets, and other space related things. I never realized that Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier 50 years to the day I was born until I first watched The Right Stuff in 2015. (October 14. 1997)
Not sure what’s more dangerous, breaking the sound barrier for the first time, or flying into or out of Yeager airport on any given Tuesday.
This man made history!
James May top gear 2008 testing Bugatti Veyron🚗 top speed : I'm hanging my ass over the ragged edge like Chuck Yeager!
"That's a sorry way to land an airplane..." If I had a dollar for every time I saw that screen, I might not have to work ever again.
James dolittle would be a good follow up video. Seems to be nearly forgotten except for the raid on japan
"The first time I saw a jet, I shot it down"
Chuck Yeager
I grew up about 30 miles south of Edwards Air Force Base, in the 1980s. Chuck Yeager was a local celebrity. They even was put on the cover of the Antelope Valley Phone Book.
His nephew Bob was one of my professors at UWF, made literature very fun
I recently read Chuck Yeager's autobiography, "Yeager." Very fascinating life he lead. He started in the army during the war as a mechanic since his upbringing had given him experience in fixing machines. The Army Air Force was short on pilots and the rule was that you had to be college educated to fly. But to fill the need the army started a program for noncoms to train as pilots based on the recommendation of their commanding officers. Yeager had already been fixing planes and knew all about their operation and was therefore recommended.
Excellent book.
I live and have grown up in the area that chuck was from and my father knew him he was an amazing guy
Chuck was a bad ass. God bless this icon. RIP!
I had the good fortune to have met General Yeager many years ago. He was a great guy and we only had a brief conversation he seemed to be pretty down to earth to me. I thought it was really interesting that he passed away on Pearl Harbor day. FLY NAVY!!!
An American Hero for sure. Good for him getting some younger tail.
Raising a glass to this man. Chuck, you are an inspiration!
I so "Hoped" when I started watching you would pay C.Y. the Honors HE Deserved! as a kid growing up next to Rockwell Int this Man was a Giant and I have known his story since the age of 10 in 1975!
GOOD DARN JOB!!!
Man was a Bad Ass!
Anyone else play Chuck Yeager’s Flight Simulator?
It’s one of the earliest video games I remember playing on a computer.
Chuck Yeager drinks red wine from a red wine glass in the Georgia sun.... a boss move!
Thank you for covering my uncles life.. I wish everyone knew him as I did. The good and bad..
"Hey Ridley, you got any Beeman's?"
"I might have me a stick."
"Loan me some, will ya? I'll pay you back later."
"Fair enough."
Loved that last scene in The Right Stuff, where he actually sees the stars from his plane.
Like my uncle says
“He’s the only one that hasn’t failed WV”
You should do a video on William S Burroughs. I feel like it would be very interesting
How I wonder, did he explain the need for taking a broom handle with him on that flight?
At Marshall University, there is a elite honors program called Yeager scholars. Only the very best students are selected to go through the program in which they pretty much take honors levels college courses for four years straight. At the end of their senior year, the general would actually interview each candidate to see if they measured up to getting the Yeager seal on their diploma. Having this on your diploma and in your transcripts pretty much meant you could go to any graduate college in the world and possible acceptance to the military academies as a post undergraduate student. I met a girl who was in the program who talked about preparing to meet him because having his sea of approval basically meant that she was assured to get into the Air Force Academy and be a pilot.
Whelp time to go watch The Right Stuff again, phenomenal movie all about this era.
Great video, Biographics is the best.
Thank you for the video.
I’d like to see states and cities around the world on geographics how they were settled and how they become what they are now
Also like a mega disaster type show
Can you do a biographics about Billy Bishop. He was a WW1 flying ace.
I got to meet him at a tea party! His wife was an avid lover of a local historical site that held tea parties, so one afternoon he accompanied her and I got to meet him!
Simon Whistler broke the sound barrier in a remote section of the earth long before Chuck Yeager. He kept this a secret. He got a running start for 40 yards, leaped into the air and reached a height just above the stratosphere. At this point he was going Mach 5. Mr. Whistler then extended his arms and slowed to 500 miles an hour. He then decended to ground level where he continued to run 5000 miles, all without breaking a sweat.
Good to see you've cut down on the opening 2 minutes of ads that you been doing lately
Chuck Yeager isn’t a “dude.” Chuck Yeager is THE DUDE. All humans bow before his greatness. I met him once as a potential USAF recruit and, even though I’ve met other famous “celebrities,” General Yeager eclipsed them all. And one of the people I’ve met was a BEATLE.
“Hey Ridley! You got any Beemans?”
Just watched the Nimitz video. I highly recommend doing a video on Hyman Rickover and the U.S. Nuclear Navy. Certainly an eccentric visionary.
Hernan Cortes or emperor Meiji next please
He was a great speaker and saw him several times growing up in WV. Last time I saw him was a year before he died when I was stationed at the military clinic that saw him and his wife.
I always remember his quote. Nov 6, 1944: First time I saw a jet, I shot it down.
Can you do a Bio on Vladimir Komarov. He was crashed into the earth in a known faulty Ussr space craft, his back up pilot and best friend was Yuri Gagarian.
glad so many fellow CAP members turned up for the comments!
I'm from an area near Edwards (formerly Muroc) AFB and I actually met him as a child. I didn't realize until years later how rude it was to interrupt his dinner to get his autograph lol
Hero. Plain and simple.
Chuck Yeager “liked” a tweet of mine once. It ain’t much but I treasure it.
Not sure if you did this but Philippe Pétain would be a good one from hero to villian
Yaeger's plane could not fly backward. It could only move forwards, until all his enemies were destroyed.
Can't wait to see one on Lee Kwan Yew!
Would love to see one on David Attenborough!
I know he’s not crucially impactful to major history but I think a Biographics on skateboarding legend Rodney Mullen would be amazing. His contributions to skateboarding have molded the way the (now Olympic) sport has evolved to a cultural staple. Love your work btw thanks for all ya do!
Great job Simon, but are you ever going to do a video on Colonel John "40 second" Boyd by any chance. Thanks.
You should cover the British equivalent of Yeager, a chap called Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown.
If it proves one thing, it's that you don't need a degree to excel at what you're good at, degrees are just pieces of paper saying you sat around looking at stuff, experience is where you are actually doing the job...
I grew up in Lincoln county WV chucks from right down the hill from me
Very interesting.
He died on my birthday, I did not know anything about him before that.
Coincidentally (maybe?), the book The Right Stuff was released the year I was born.
That same year there was a company called Supersonic electronics was launched, which also sells shirts of his supersonic flight.
Do a video on Eamon DeValera (1882-1975)
If you ever get a chance to watch The Right Stuff it’s a phenomenal movie about the Mercury program and Chuck Yeager is a prominent character in it.
Never learned about him in school either. Wish I had.
That is a great video and I say this month will have to be Women in History: Bessie Smith, Althea Gibson, Ella Fitzgerald , Eartha Kite, Eleanor Roosevelt, or Lucille Ball or Phyllis Diller or other women who made history for Women's History Month
I guess he looked in the mirror and said, "I'll make a supersonic man out of you"