I was thinking that the entire video. People talk about professionals like they're robots, but I guarantee you this pilot was giddy and nervous his whole flight!

I'm sure he was nervous as hell though. Would be awesome though, being able to say "I took Chuck Yeager on a honor flight"

And one of the most intimidating things you'll ever do. If you make one little mistake or sloppy control input, he'd notice.

REAL QUESTION...WERE THOSE WA. AIR GUARD AIRCRAFT? THAT WAS NOT JBLM THEY WERE FLYING OUT OF

@@robertchandler5055 JBLM has no fighters based there just C-17's. WA on the tail is a code for fighters based at Nellis AFB.

Double ACE

Rip

One of a kind!!

@@anthonydemarco2583 yes indeed

No tattoo's.....no huge muscles...........100% STUD. He was the REAL DEAL!!!!

Yeah like in Star Trek! Godspeed Chuck!

Ill be surpised if they don't name an air force base after him..Yeager air force base would sound awesome

Better make it first interstellar craft, made to go over .01 or .10c. Fastest son of a gun in the solar system!

@@timbob8977 That's irony. In one of his books he talks about during the test flight days and how many people were dying around him. One day he would be working with a guy, the next day he was driving to work on a street named after that guy.

Ethan Nelson and if he's not it's a crime.

God bless Yeager's soul. I loved his flight sim game back in the 90s. I would've kill to be able to kill like him in combat.

Always

Must have been awesome to have Chuck Yeager fly your plane!.. that inverted climb...old school awesomeness...that’s why he’s an icon...

Great story to remember in your senior years! Thank you for your service....

Just heard about General Yeager’s passing. Salute! RIP sir.

I'm not crying...you're crying...AMERICA,WERE 10 AND 1

This is why he's legendary! I would have given anything to get to talk with him for just an hour.

NUFF SAID...

I don't even think he was joking.

At supersonic speeds and in large airplanes the “seat of the pants” is very unreliable and can grossly misinform. At low altitude and low speed a little too steep an angle of attack and your plane is on its belly before you can correct. Gen. Yeager flew so much in so many different planes that his educated guess might have been better that some AOA gages. Most pilots don't have his experience in so many planes. Perhaps not even his natural abilities. After all, he’s 97!! (89 in the video) after a lifetime of flying many different aircraft. There just isn't a great supply of supermen.

@@algrayson8965 I hear ya... Id take Chuck Yeagers "best guess" over anyone elses sure fact... including a computers.

I caught that too---imagine the disappointed engineer who created the instrument General Yeager criticized. And no I don't think the general was joking. :)

That's the only stupid comment on this page, not Gen Yeager's quote, but your characterization of it. He is not bad he is good.

@@goognamgoognw6637 Um, *badass* is a compliment. It's respect.

@@MindHunger Not in my book and I go by the English dictionary which represents the anglo saxon World. And sorry for taking steam out of your boat but i knew that vulgar american language uses a reversed meaning for that specific expression. I just find it repulsive and indicative of extremely an animal barbaric culture.

@@goognamgoognw6637 That makes no sense at all.

@@MindHunger Right, the dictionary does not make sense but you do.

Me262

00:59 "Stupid thing, it tells you what your angle of attack is; if you don't know you shouldn't be flying."

Curtsy of the Red Tails. They taught the other pilots how to defeat the M262.

@@zumaanandrade3486 That's a myth kid. They only shot down 3. Other units had shot down a total of 60 before them most due to the 8th Airforce squadron. If anything the 8th taught the Tuskege and everyone else.

@@virgilio6349 Look it up it's online. They were the first and they shot down three that same day.

I’m sure after so many years he’s more comfortable in the air than on the ground. Al though I’m sure he was pushing to fly it himself.

I was thinking pretty much the same thing watching him climb in. How many times has that man performed that action in his life.

@@BruceMusto Truly born to be a fighter pilot.

And anyone who's actually met this man is laughing at everyone here, realizing that these people have no clue what an utter asshole he is. He would refuse to fly in a plane if the Crew Chief was black, hispanic, a woman, etc. He was rude, arrogant, dangerous when behind the stick, especially to people on the ground, but he's Air Force "Royalty" and so he was given a pass, even after he retired. I was an F-15 Crew Chief and crewed one of the jets he flew, with my name on the opposite side of the same jet he flew during one of our Open House Air Shows, and I lost every bit of respect I used to have for the man after seeing him and seeing how he treated those of us on the ground crew. You can worship him all you want, go right ahead. But, I'll remember how he truly is towards people and I won't lose any sleep over recognizing him for what he is, an asshole past his prime.

Should do, took him 45s to sit down, he's not getting up in a hurry

R.I.P

Rip

😭

He passed away on my birthday?... That's sad..

@@Wolfboy_109 Think about it not really.. Nothing but a stud...

+Tallguysd All Yeager had to do was LOOK at Chuck Norris, and Norris got the message. Oh yeah, and Norris' seat was in the BACK.

hes actually first man to fly mach 1

Sooo not true! There might have been many pilots capable of piloting the plane but no one really knew what would happen! Balls of steel come to mind!

Tallguysd Well, Yeager out ranks Norris anyway. One is a general and the other is an airman 1st class.

Tallguysd 👍!!!!!!

It's funny coming from the man who crashed a NF-104 due to not keeping it within the aoa envelope.

If you want to break records, sometimes you have to crash a few planes.

😂👍yup i cought that one too

I was laughing so hard as he said that :D ... back then they had to fly the planes own their own ... he is a real pilot :)

@@lakai2305 That's true, and they crashed a shitload of planes back then, too. If Chuck Yeager were younger and was flying Vipers or Eagles, you can bet he wouldn't be complaining about the AoA indexer.

Getting in there is fine but at 89, the body does not handle these G-forces, very well. Organic bodies are not for the long haul. Got to remember that one, everyday......We are vulnerable.....and we have our limitations.

@@linanicolia1363 I have no idea how it feels to be a legend.

Pretty sure that plane is both giddy and terrified. Being as he was the first too shoot down a jet..

Just you and a few

Very. Would read even better as 'Gen Chuck Yeager ...and his young padawan apprentice'.

I imagine the pilot had to have been at least a LITTLE nervous.. General Yeager is not only a living legend, but aviation royalty. He must have shit a brick when he found out he got the assignment.

numberyellow eh

front seat you moron

@@magicmike6961 back seat

oh okay

Chuck was indeed in the back seat. The front seat is for the pilot, the back seat is for the Weapons System Officer.

@@bigtime9597 please no leactures.

AlexModeling that just about says it all!

he should have used that moment to close his chin strap instead. cool guy though.

My personal impression, is that it's meant more to measure it for review of the pilot's performance afterward, not to tell the pilot at that moment.

AlexModeling fucking burns that Eagle driver lol

Nick, I'm not sure if you're familiar with what AoA is, or maybe I misunderstood you. Driving a Viper or Eagle is a little more demanding and it's easier to become task saturated, so having an alpha gauge there is helpful in ensuring you don't depart during maneuvers or stall an engine due to disrupted airflow. I don't agree with Chuck Yeager on that one.

Chuck Yeager - an American TREASURE.

Maybe you should down a whole bottle of sleeping pills and say bye bye to us all ;)

Greg Griffin What is your point and who are you directing it at?

Greg Griffin what makes you want to say something like that? I'm just curious this was a video about the general chuck Yeager flying again and you have to leave a negative comment like that I mean what is your problem? What does that negative comment have ANYTHING TO DO with a retired general flying a jet again?

ron guin

Mach was on Paper, Chuck on life, agree with your suggestion.

@@piosian4914 if it wasnt for mach's papers nothing of this shit would be possible and yeager would be still flying at 500Km/h in a mustang p-50

you forgot all the pilots that where in the nasa or russian space program: 'lets strap my arse to a big pile of fuel, light it up and see how far and how fast i can go'... they are a different breed of men and women in some cases.

@@0katmandude0 first of all, you've totally bought the mythology based on gauzy eyed retellings for teenagers and enthusiasts. second there was no "russian" space program in the 1940s-1980s. However, the Soviet Union had one. For example, the chief designer of the Soviet Space program, Korolev, without whom there would be no sputnik and no gagarin, was Ukrainian. Their big rockets always had "CCCP" (USSR) on them, not "Russia" as that would make as much sense at the time as painting "Florida" or "Texas" instead of NASA/USA on american ones.

@@martintimoshenko4260 my my my, aren't we a reactive one ^^ (Could you be from Ukraine?), I was cutting corners. I meant CCCP of course (my bad). Born in 76 I grew up with the legends in books and on film. My dad watched the moon landing. I didn't have the privilege, I did see the Challenger accident live on TV since my school was to have their first class with Miss McAuliffe (really sad and painful experience for a 10 year old boy with stars in his eyes). Anyhoot, We can all agree that humains that have the courage to strap themselves on untested machines hoping that they will function as specified are heroes pushing the envelope of our species knowledge base and should be praised and celebrated. Lets not pollute our heroes with politics and postering. That I'll leave to our would be leaders... ;)

Yeah, but a new and improved to many degrees lightsaber. And he’s master it all the same.

yes

i hope you have a bad night

Jester would be an honor to fly a jet period.. but yes chuck too 😬

I'd just like to be able to meet him and shake his hand. Meeting him is meeting a Great piece of history!! It was nice they gave him a Cameo appearance in the movie "The Right Stuff"!

Mark Bondar He was a technical adviser on that movie. He joked that Sam Shepard is more like Chuck than Chuck himself is.

Jester can you say bingo mavricks dead your out of it kid

pepetg, you are so right my friend.

Spot on. Great comment!

PEPETG them balls are titanium, my friend.

😂🤣

That's rude guys but did you know he's literally been flying since the 1940s so get recked

I lived right next door to Chuck Yeager's mother Grandma Yeager she had three sons that I know of and I knew them all Chuck Yeager Woodrow Yeager and Lee Yeager big beautiful German blue-eyed men the right stuff and I used to talk to Grandma everyday she said under a tree and she would tell me stories I had no idea that Chuck was a national hero

Spoken like a true parasite

They most likely made up a medal for that flight. I would have

You know it...

No doubt about it.

@@johnwilson2284 You're a tick on the asshole of life, jonny.

My grandparents were from slovakia 👍

Many of our American tank crews in Desert Storm had pictures of Gen Rommel inside. Respect is respect.

@@georgemallory797 talent knows talent.

You, sir, are a professional Russian of the highest caliber.

kevinfishburne He's Slovakian dumbass,he even told you that.

I thought the same when I read his biography 25 years ago or so. Amazing life indeed.

I think they did. 'The right stuff' I think.

ashipnerd offical yep that's the stuff :)

You have really been sucked by the PR campaign that Yeager has spun. He was just the guy who happened to be in the X-1 program. It doesn't take a lot of skill to sit in a rocket powered aircraft and go past the speed of sound.

D today, but it wasn't easy in 1949.

Gung Ho Vids General Chuck Yeager is American Aviation's last living legend

Thank you for your service and guts, General Yeager. You're a true American hero and still going strong

Thanks for posting this. I remember when the General broke the sound barrier. It is good to see American Heroes being treated like the Heroes they really are. General Yeager is one of the very few American pilots to shoot down a German 262 with a P-51D. For those that don't know, he took out a twin engine jet with a single engine propeller driven fighter. He is and will always be a Great American Hero.

+Gung Ho Vids Thank you for your service General Yeager!! You a truly a Great American Hero!

+rickd248 I bet he was all smiles when those afterburners ignited!

Nah. Probably think "damnit, my athristis!"

@Unpaid News war is war

Nice, he kinda hates you guys though. Lol.

Remember that your General Montgomery completely wasted valuable supplies in Operation Market Garden, which turned into a bitter failure of a battle. Must make an amazing war story indeed. Besides, America overtook Britain as the world military superpower after World War 1, so you had to rely on us volunteering in order to get the Luftwaffe to stop bombing the hell out of London. You only had one unit present in Bastogne, the largest and bloodiest battle in the history of the war. It was the 21st Army Group, Second Army. Where were the rest of you? From our 12th Army Division, we had three groups; First, Ninth and Third. Where were the British when the American Third and Ninth fought over Aachen and broke through the Siegfried Line, which Churchill called "The Hindenburg Line"? Don't get me wrong. You're fine. But you may want to look at your own history before you try to act like you're the heroes because your leaders nearly cost us the war in Europe.

@@bigtime9597 You seriously think that three American Eagle Squadrons were able to stop the Luftwaffe bombing London? The Eagle Squadrons were not operational during the Battle of Britain when the bombing of London began, and by the time the Eagle Squadrons were made operational, the raids were being carried out under the cover of darkness. The main reason Hitler stopped bombing London in 1941 was that he needed those bomber squadrons for Operation Barbarossa. Also advances in AI radar on British night fighters was starting to increase Luftwaffe casualties, though in reality probably still not enough to halt their operations. The Eagle Squadrons were flying day fighters so would have had little or no impact upon the cessation of the bombing of London any more than the any other allied day fighter squadrons. While there were many errors that led to failure of Market Garden, many historians are now agreed that the operation mainly failed due to US General Gavin's failure to take the bridge at Nijmegen due to his obsession with 1000 non-existent tanks that were "hiding in the Groesbeek Heights". If you want to lay any blame on a British General, then it should be leveled at General "Boy" Browning (Gavin's superior) who went along with Gavin's mythical assertion, despite dismissing hard evidence of SS armour around Arnhem taken by photo reconnaissance aircraft. Taking the bridge at Nijmegen was Gavin's primary objective, and he failed to prioritise this, not only leading to serious delays in getting XXX Corps to Arnhem, but causing unnecessary casualties among his own US 82nd Airborne troops as they were forced to make a suicidal river crossing in the face of the by now much strengthened 2nd SS Panzer Division. The final breakthrough at Nijmegen was only achieved with the assistance of the British Guards Armoured Division, but the delays at Nijmegen led to the lightly armed 1st Airborne at Arnhem running out of ammunition in the face of a overwhelming enemy force whose strength was constantly increasing. I'm not saying Monty was perfect (no General was) and Market Garden was a massively ambitious operation, however blame for its failures should be attributed based on evidence and facts.

He must have mixed allegiances considering his obvious German heritage.

@@user-kp7gy9yt8b John Glenn, Neil Armstrong etc have clearly British heritage ...maybe the old German fuck is jealous

K

Your so brave dropping bombs on civilians from 30,000ft. God bless America

Well stated, well stated. You're a Patriot through and through!

John Ennis good one

Thank you for your service sir

A life well lived is worthy of that length. A major salute to him 🏁🇺🇸🏁🎖🎖🎖

He was extremely lucky to live such a long time as for a god damn experimental pilot

Ch0plol I highly doubt it, several pilots I know cant stand flying with him.

Do they say why?

Scott Terrill - If you were 89 and been through all he has, you'd be a frikkin grouch. The General is a dam legend, he can act however the frik he wants.

Yeah, good luck with that. It takes a real man to NOT act like a fucking tool to everyone. Let him try and fly in my plane...aint going to happen.

+Sam Young I was elbow to elbow to General Yeager about 2 yrs ago. It was amazing, we quietly talked, I gave him a pack of Beeman's gum (no kidding) and I won't forget it. "I wonder where this stuff is made now" he said. I said I think Argentina or somewhere like that! His wife Victoria runs the show. DO NOT ask for an autograph, it will not happen--his trademark is worth a FORTUNE and he's protected as such. His Right Stuff store has stuff--look at it to understand. I had two autographs from him, back when it was easy (circa 1988-1990), he signed his two books for me--he came off the wing of the jet and there I was-- after talking to us maintenance guys at Edwards AFB. I lost my taste for him after I was disappointed at things I saw, so I sold BOTH on eBay.

+MotoMarios Agreed. If you see your angle is too steep and your air speed is dropping off rapidly, you should know instinctively what to do. It might be useful as a backup in IFR conditions. Is Chuck still with us? Hope so.

+Adrian Larkins Primary pitch instrument for ANY carrier trap is the AOA! I often wish I had one in the Hun.

Well done Chuck. May you hit 100.

MotoMarios, Yeager is correct. Too many pilots rely on instruments in visual flight conditions rather than developing a natural feel for seat-of-the-pants flying. Example: I was doing an aircraft checkout ride to a low time pilot who wanted to rent one of the most simple airplanes to fly: a Cessna 172. That guy spent half of his time looking at the instruments? I reminded him that he was flying in visual conditions and, with the exception of a quick glance at the altimeter, he should be looking for traffic outside. He was also very mechanical with his flying. I could sense that he had no natural feel for flying. There are natural pilots, and then there are are the "airplane driver" types who really shouldn't be flying.

That's his wife beside him when he straped in.

Growing up in the 70's in Southern Colorado we would always hear sonic booms. I wonder what aircraft made those back then.

Professional Pilots fly by the rule book (FARS & Standards) it's never assumed and a given. (Your god himself is no exception). ✈😎

@@judgemarshall6127 It was a joke. Calm down.

@@ppipowerclass 32 years of flight experience in various environments driving diverse types of equipment. Naaaah. No thanks. I'll continue to stay vigilant. It's gotten me this far. 🤔😆👨🏽‍✈️✈🌍

+obsolete professor Very cool. Thanks for posting.

+Hassan Goldstein I guess "not fitting the profile" sorta stuck. Oprah's airplane cracked a windshield and the pilot radio'd to go back. He asked the controller, "Do you know who this is?" Controller came back with a "Yes... (so what!?)"

+obsolete professor Hahahahahaha that's a nice response from the atc

Nerio Zulberti this video was made in 2012. He ain’t 89 anymore and I hope he is still alive.

98 12 valve i hope so

As of January 2020 he is still with us. He'll be 97 in February 2020.

Let alone seeing the X-15 and both SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo do the same thing he did in the X-1 (being drop-launched from a carrier plane), except go higher (over 50 miles) and faster (Mach 5+). Some may also add the Space Shuttle, but it was launched like a rocket except for the four unpowered "ALT" flights (using the Boeing 747 and the Space Shuttle Enterprise) back in 1977.

The A.O.A., or Angle of Attack indicator is far from being a stupid instrument, regardless of what the General says. For some individuals, Yeager, Hoover, and others, the airplane talks to them. There is nothing wrong with that, but if you want to fly precisely, the AOA indicator will give you the most precise indication of how well the aircraft is flying, since it measures the amount of lift being generated.

@ gary curran.....lighten up....as the point of my original comment was simply to state, that Chuck Yeager is a one of a kind, true American combat pilot and military test pilot, who has more of the "right stuff " at his age today, than many will ever have....AOA indicator has nothing to do with it....

+Gary Curran Agree! And, as a matter of fact, in the F-16, we fly AOA on approach (11 degrees)...not airspeed. And AOA is DEFINITELY the instrument you want in wind shear conditions! Lost a few airliners years ago because they weren't equipped with one. Bottom line: Yeager comes from an entirely different era in aviation.

+Gary Vale :l ... some people don't have sense of humor Gary!!! they don't get it!! :D

you sir are soooooooooo right.......but I'm glad you got it...hahaha

My guess would be that maybe none of them went to Flight School.

They're FAIPs.

Flunked out of high school.

Maybe some of them have a different opinion of him. I've heard stories of him not being very nice to....ahem....minorities while he was in the service.

My other guess is that they are not proud Americans, but ignorant idiots.

Jealous

Well not to brag, but he was my grandfathers cousin.

@@Griggsbygriffindore Yeah well he is both my mother and farther.

Not the guy I dealt with for 26 years of Fighter maintenance. Monumental jerk. Hated enlisted people.

yeah always seemed to be a real narcissist asshole

Let the lawsuits over his estate begin between his young wife, Victoria, and his sons from Glennis, Michael and Don and his daughter Sharon.

Shame i only have one like to give for this comment...

Best.

+Jack Brewer Oroville of all places? Wow.

Tbh I think thats mostly the fact that older guys still keep to the tradition that a handshake SHOULD be firm and show strength.

What an honor for you!

My thoughts exactly.

You misspelled "GOD"

That would have been a spectacular gesture!

Agree

I was an F-15 Crew Chief in the Air Force and he came to open an Air Show at my base back when I was still on the flight line. the jet I crewed had "Glamorous Glennis" painted on its side for just that occasion. I was glad when he was done because while he may be in the history books and he may have paved the way for aviation, behind the scenes, he's a complete asshole.

Is that a man...nooo that's THE man...

Great movie!!

DAMN! I just posted that...great minds think alike ;p

That same year, I saw him fly a P-51 with 3 others and a B-17 over the Indy 500 to start the fun, great time.

tardivo1972 Argentina is a beautiful country. Thanks for stopping by and making a good comment

+tardivo1972 ,yes thanks 1972. good international comments seem to be a rarity,and hello from friends in the U.S.A. !

Robbie Dixon (püüüü

tarvido1972...If you ever come to the United States e-mail me and I will hook you up to see some of the great aviation museums over here. If you need a copy of Chuck's autobiography let me know as well, I probably can find it in espanol