As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We got it above mach one, and once we got it above the speed of sound, then… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The needle of the machmeter fluctuated at this reading momentarily, then passed off the scale. Assuming that the off-scale… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
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… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
It's your duty to fly the airplane. If you get killed in it, you don't know anything about it anyway. Duty is paramount. It's… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No.… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
