Chuck Yeager Quotes and Sayings
- Name:
- Chuck Yeager (random)
- Books & Videos:
- Chuck Yeager Books & Videos
- Type:
- Aviator
- Nationality:
- American
- Birth Date / Year:
- February 13, 1923
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I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit. Chuck Yeager | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
- 3
Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight. Chuck Yeager | Refcard PDF ↑
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Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane. Chuck Yeager | Refcard PDF ↑
- 5
Never wait for trouble. Chuck Yeager | Refcard PDF ↑
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Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own. Chuck Yeager | Refcard PDF ↑
- 7
There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot. Chuck Yeager | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 up but you don't give up. Chuck Yeager | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
