Chuck Yeager, First Man To Break The Sound Barrier, Dies At Age 97 | TODAY
Вставка
- Опубліковано 7 гру 2020
- The Air Force officer who was the first pilot to fly at supersonic speed, Chuck Yeager, has died at the age of 97. Along with such contemporaries as Neil Armstrong and John Glenn, Yeager was a symbol of American heroism. NBC’s Tom Costello reports for TODAY on his life and legacy.
» Subscribe to TODAY: on.today.com/SubscribeToTODAY
» Watch the latest from TODAY: bit.ly/LatestTODAY
About: TODAY brings you the latest headlines and expert tips on money, health and parenting. We wake up every morning to give you and your family all you need to start your day. If it matters to you, it matters to us. We are in the people business. Subscribe to our channel for exclusive TODAY archival footage & our original web series.
Connect with TODAY Online!
Visit TODAY's Website: on.today.com/ReadTODAY
Find TODAY on Facebook: on.today.com/LikeTODAY
Follow TODAY on Twitter: on.today.com/FollowTODAY
Follow TODAY on Instagram: on.today.com/InstaTODAY
Follow TODAY on Pinterest: on.today.com/PinTODAY
#ChuckYeager #SoundBarrier #TodayShow
Chuck Yeager, First Man To Break The Sound Barrier, Dies At Age 97 | TODAY
My father, passed away now too, was a senior chief flight test engineer at Edwards during the 60s, 70s, and 80s. As a young boy I grew up around Chuck, and all the rest of those great guys out there in the 60's. All national hero's that were amazing in what they could do. Bigger than life is how I remember them back in those days. Another one was Chuck Lewis, that guy was both a Top Surgeon and a Top Pilot who took me for a big ride in the sky when I was 10. It was a challenge with a bet made that everyone knew about but me. All the guys were out there on the runway laughing after we landed and they saw me get out. That's how it really was back then. Rip to Chuck and the other guys gone now too.
Great story. I enjoyed reading. Chuck is an American legend.. the most famous test pilot, along with Armstrong, this country will ever know. What a blessing to grow up around that man. God speed.
Fun Fact: Chuck Yeager lived longer than the guy who played him in The Right Stuff.
He didn’t play himself. He just had a cameo as the bartender at Pancho’s HBRC, where the pilots hung-out.
@@davidbruceopp I didn’t mean he played himself, I meant he lived longer than the guy who played him in the movie.
Yes, Sam Shepard played Chuck Yeager in "The Right Stuff" (1983). Great book and film. Sam sadly contracted ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and passed in 2017 at age 73. Chuck Yeager passed in 2020 at age 97. A hero (WW2 pilot and Ace) and a real gentleman.
RIP. His headstone should have “I am speed” engraved.
I didn't know he was still alive so recently. RIP to the first man to break the sound barrier and an American aviation icon, godspeed Mr. Yeager.
He was active on Twitter until his death! It was such a joy reading his tweets.
I actually met Gen. Yeager here in NorCal outside a Chinese Food place back in 07. The man had a grip like no other. A Legend indeed
Sad to lose this great American from one of the greatest generation! 🇺🇸
Rest In Peace Mr Yeager🙏🏼✝️
That ereb yeager who sacrefice himself to make peace
Eren long lost 3 brother*
Punch a hole in the sky Mr. Yeager. RIP.
He flew more than 340 different aircraft...he said “ I never owned a airplane...but if you’re willing to bleed...the government will buy you all the airplanes you want”....🤣🤣🤣
One of my favorite quotes from General Yeager. A remarkable man.
Another legendary pilot "flies west". Godspeed.
Back in the '80s and '90s, I was working for a federal audit agency at Northrop in Hawthorne, CA. One of my jobs was to review the descriptions of work done by consultants to Northrop, of which Chuck Yeager was one. I remember reading his compositions and really being impressed with the level of detail. Where some people would write very little, leaving you to wonder what they did (if anything), he would write in great detail.
I was at Edwards Air Force Base for the first space shuttle landing most of these people men and women the walking computers
A great man... As the 20th century fades away.... Remember the Good... Strong...Brave.. Free.. Amen....
Rest In Peace . A true hero .
THIS MAN MOST DEFINITELY HAD THE RIGHT STUFF AND HE WILL FOREVER BE MISSED AND WILL ALWAYS BE IN OUR HEARTS. REST IN PARADISE, GENERAL YEAGER. BLUE SKIES!!
RIP.. Chuck. Never forget. Great Stick and Rudder Man. From Austria 🇦🇹.
May His Memory Be Eternal.....RIP Chuck....job well done!
There were others that had flown faster than the speed of sound on dives, but all of their aircraft had been destroyed in previous attempts. This was the first successful supersonic flight.
I remember an interview in the 80's:
He wasn't much for keeping trophies, except for the prestigious Collier trophy, it was good for storage of nuts and bolts.
We need more Chuck Yeagers today. He was what being an American is all about. He got the job done. Not afraid of risk and took the chances that were needed to be exceptional!!!
WW2 Fighter Pilot, Test Pilot, and the man who broke the sound barrier! Hero, Pioneer, and Legend. May God rest Chuck's soul. The Sound of Madness! He had a need for speed!
Thank you for your service General. Truly a man with Balls of steel, an insatiable need for speed, and an aerodynamics genius! Bon Voyage Starman 💫
Rip A true legend
General Yeager flew the Lockheed NF 104 to the edge of space. He also flew the Bell X1A to better than Mach 2.5. The fastest that a straight wing aeroplane has ever flown! Along with Bob Hoover he was one of the greatest stick and rudder pilots who ever lived. Per Ardua ad Astra.
A MAN! A real honest to God, man's MAN, no snowflakes here.
Racist, too (per Frank Borman)
@@joedellaselva1251 -- Joe, that's modern media BS. The accusation of a shunning order is third-hand hearsay, Borman =NEVER= endorsed it [the video you remember seeing used a sound bite from =DWIGHT= in the middle of a long interview with Borman].
@@joedellaselva1251 Boo hoo...
Thank You for your service to mankind Chuck. May you continue to fly the skies.
As someone who loves planes and dreams of designing them this truly saddens me the greatest pilot in american history now gone to time may he rest in peace he deserves it after a life so well lived
Phew. What a life. The true test pilot. May he slip the surly bonds of Earth and touch the face of God.
Since I was a child, Chuck has been my hero...
God speed General Yeager......
Rest'n peace sir......space won't forget you! You won't be forgotten by many....the one that made space flights possible!
A true American hero from West Virginia. He started life with little, reached for the sky, and got there. Rest in Peace General Yeager.
Thank You CHUCK 👣👁️⚡🔑❤️❗
I was in the media in the 80's and 90's and was fortunate to meet General Yeager. He autographed his book and ball cap for me. One of my heroes.
RIP
still heartbreaking man
R.I.P.
RIP brave man.
True hero.
Rest in peace, Sir. You were my hero and my write in candidate in 4 elections.
Rip to the cowboy in the sky. Another legend gone. Rip chuck
God Bless Sir.. Forever in your debt..
R.I.P., General...
Kudos to his matchless vigour & legacy !!
R.I.P. to a legendary American hero !!!!!!
I got to fly Chuck and sit with him at the Indy 500. Such a Gentleman.
Best book I read at the time god bless your spirit sir
A role model for me. RIP
godspeed
i live in hamlin wv and met him there in the diner!
Yeager was not simply the first man to break the sound barrier. He did it in level flight. That's the greater accomplishment. He didn't do it like a rock with a motor attached. Several men claim to have broken the sound barrier before Yeager. Some have good claim, but that was in a dive. Chuck rode it to the horizon.
My Col father was high ranking in Air Force got me a personal 1 on 1 flight when I was younger with chuck yeager in a p51 mustang! I will forever remember that, but at that time I hated heights, plains, and was very hesitant of going, I had this imagined idea of barrel rolls, and loops, and dog fighting Ariel Maneuvers but was nothing like that. I was also able and lucky enough to meet last living 🇯🇵 fighter pilot, John glen, Neil Armstrong, and many other historical people that day, my dad was basically spending all week with chuck and John showing them where to go and be at certain times and places to sign autographs on these commemorative posters that were low number items and most going to certain high ranking military officers and your average person would never get to see these people, see those posters hand signed personally by each person or fly with them, and here I was just a young dependent of my military father and he pulls stings for me to be apart of it all is mind blowing still
The Air Force did a multi plane fly-over the SoCak basin on the anniversary of breaking the sound barrier🚀 a few yrs ago, Before Gen Yeager died. Footage also on UA-cam
I saw it -live - it was inspiring
I had a scale replica of the X 1. It is signed by Chuck. I also have the picture of him signing the X 1 replica. They are my most prized possessions.
A true "American Hero" !!! Godspeed Sir !
A true American hero .
May his and the ashes of Capt. Ed Dwight (scheduled to be first Black Astronaut but still with us) be at the appropriate time flown into space and released.
Is that supposed to be a sarcastic joke?
Per Ed Dwight, Chuck Yeager pulled some racist crap that kept him off of any programs.
@@muhammadsteinberg That I did not know. It must have backfired he (Chuck Yeager) didn't get his ride into space.
@@thephantom5368 I 1st seen the story in a documentary. Being an aviator and fan of Yeager I had to confirm it. I later read where Ed pretty much confirmed what the documentary said.
It is what it is unfortunately.
@@muhammadsteinberg • Yeager denies this. I entered the USAF in 1962 as an air traffic controller much sneered upon. So I know racism and the flying side of the Air Force, Col.Fred Gregory's mother was my teacher in elementary school, his uncle was Dr. Charles Drew. He was a model plane enthusiast.
@@thephantom5368 I entered the same branch in 80. I entered in 80 and seen some of what Dwight was talking about.
Of course there is no cookie cutter experience. Every scenario is independent.
Curious, where did you find Yeager's denial?
Live fast and die young .... Good Life 😊 lived the Life...
💯💯💯
Bravo et merci MONSIEUR Chuck
This is one of the biggest badass’s to ever live. He shot down jet fighters, with his airplanes machines gun, flying a prop airplane. To understand fully what that means, look up machinegun combat between jet fighters, there are documentaries about how impossible it is. He did it with a propeller airplane.
Best Pilot I have ever seen... My last hero is dead.
One of The Greatest of the Greatest Generation. RIP General Yeager, you have truly been an inspiration to countless people all over the world. Now go touch the face of God, sir.
Aviation’s GOAT!! Rip...
Funnily enough, I was just thinking about Yeager that same evening while I was riding in my dad's car. Me and my dad were talking about potentially revolutionary propulsion methods that could break the speed of light barrier.
~GODSPEED ~ the twin sonic booms you hear are the General entering Heaven @ Mach 2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Godspeed Chuck.
Awesome dude for sure, a true american badass
Fun fact: thousands of years ago he was called eren jeager.
I came here because of Eren
No idea why they called it "Mach" , should have called it Yeager.
RIP General Yeager the true essence of a life well lived. America has lost a true legend, and I find it ironic that he passed away on Pearl Harbor day. Thanks to all now serving, those who have, and those who will in the future. FLY NAVY!!!
24 year olds should strive for greatness like Chuck Yeager, sad that many won't even try.
One of our greatest WWII heroes, who continued to serve in Korea and Viet Nam, along with fellow legends Bud Anderson and Robin Olds. How ironic, like Eisenhower, Yeager carries a name of German origin and was instrumental in defeating Hitler and Germany !! His name literally means " hunter" in German !! It is almost biblical.....like Joshua Chamberlain at Gettysburg. I experienced him leading a flight of P-51 Mustangs that buzzed the crowd at the Indianapolis 500 in 1995.....the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII. His plane roared so close to the top of the grandstand that it shook the structure so hard that unsuspecting fans filled their shorts with last night's dinner !!! Young people in our nation need to read and learn about Chuck Yeager, and the other men like him who were courageous and dedicated warriors for our nation.......without whom we may be all "goose stepping" today in obedience to evil masters.
Why was he called a racist?
I found Eren's distant cousin. ❤️
Anybody else looking for the Impractical Jokers clip
Tom cruise was the first one to ride a motorcycle without a helmet.
🇺🇸🦅😎⚓🍺
Welcome to Chuck Yeager's Air Combat... RIP
I can remember going to airshows with my dad who was a commercial pilot. Mr. Yeager was there just walking around. My dad said to me, "Do you know who that is?" We went over to him, and as an 9 year old child, to me he was a rock star, a larger than life, real live super hero.
RIP General Yeager
I love your down-to-earth attitude (no pun intended).
Tired of all the arrogance today. You were the real deal. An Officer and a Gentleman.
PS Thank you for your service. YOUR generation fought for OUR freedom. THANK YOU. Most today don’t appreciate, or even remember. Doesn’t matter. It is written in the Book of Time. It happened. It was real. And you were a part of it. 🤚 👍
Such a awesome fighter pilot that after shooting down multiple Germans one day a German he got on the tail of flew into a hillside panicked & trying to get away from Yeager who had just shot down like 3 or 4 before him that battle. He also shot down a couple ME 262 jet fighters with his P-51 during WW2. Badass
Not even joking my dad told me I’m his 4th cousin
His death was a hit!
There are no words to describe a man like him mold was definitely broken after he was made.
Nickel on the grass.
He has three children from his first wife, Glennis. Wonder if they will fight his young wife, Victoria, over his estate?
4 actually. Don. Micheal . Susan . sharon
Read a book
It was broken way before this,he was the first man,but the bow wipe did years before this...
in LEVEL flight
Shot down, but never bought the farm !!!
Who’s def after this loud Noises as a remembering of Who Makes Mach! Speech or Speed!? 😏🎂🤙👍🙏❤️🇺🇸🦅. Why are These people speaking so loud? 😳?
where Yeager at anyone know
Just another thing to make 2020 worse.
G.I joe real American Hero
The historical airbus indisputably claim because plasterboard univariably cycle along a splendid accelerator. decisive, ossified plot
Adrenaline junkie right there. I wonder how he handles rollercoasters.
I hope he is in the care of Jesus Christ with all of the ducks he shot. That part I did not like.
Jesus Christ saves from sin.
Romans 3: 23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Hebrews 9: 27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Isaiah 64: 6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Revelation 21: 8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Romans 5: 8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
John 3: 16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 14: 6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Romans 10: 9-10.
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Jesus said John 5: 24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
1John 5: 10-13
He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Ephesians 2: 8-9
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Romans 8: 1
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 15: 3-4
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
2 Corinthians 5: 21
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
........