I am so sick of Chuck Yeager...

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Even condescending in his video game...

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Derg said:
Remember the conversations we'd have about how you can be a good pilot and loads of hours, but you don't belong in a crew environment?

You know the "Billy's got a millionty hours but United called Johnny instead and Billy's angry because he has more experience!"?
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What? No. That's never true. Congress said so. :D
 
Sounds like a little dementia douchebaggery. Probably isn't him anyway. Most likely a nephew stealing his meds.

Face it. The guy has always suffered from Armstrong envy. HE, was the real deal. I can personally verify it.
 
As others have said, his uh "Richardness" has been a not-very-well-kept secret for decades. I've always been a Bob Hoover adherent, myself. A true gentleman by all accounts I've read.

Now, with that said, I don't think the fact that he's a hygeine product erases any of his achievements. Yes, part of it was "right place right time", but part of it was skill and aggression. And apparently eyesight. It's worth remembering that the guy came from the hollows of West Virginia and if they hadn't thrown a War, he'd probably have been a coal miner and dead at 50 from black lung. My father came from right across the border in eastern Kentucky, and was headed straight for the same Company Store Hell, cept he found himself in Dubya Dubya Two, uh, too. Now, he wasn't a dick (at least not in the same way), but if instead of using the GI Bill to go to school, he'd stayed in and fought tooth and nail for every promotion against the tide of ring-knockers (hero or not), I can feature him having developed the same sort of egocentric, self-impressed buffoonery.

In any case, it's interesting to me that anyone is surprised. Great warriors, especially those of the Frank Luke/Chuck Yeager mold (reckless, arrogant, aggressive) don't always make the best role models. Randy Cunningham, anyone?
 
Hacker15e said:
Or, be more careful when selecting your heroes.

I met mine, and he was every bit as badass as the legend made him out to be.

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Yeager has been a known • for decades to anyone who had any sort of actual personal interaction with him.
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Good to know about Olds. I read his book last year and celebrate Mustache March in his honor. Helluva life he led, too.
 
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