Chuck Yeager quotes

Chuck Yeager was an American aviator and test pilot, celebrated for being the first person to break the sound barrier. His fearless approach and skill advanced the frontiers of aviation and inspired generations of pilots. He became an iconic figure in aerospace history and military aviation. Here are 15 of his quotes:

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)
Never wait for trouble. View quote
Chuck Yeager
There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot. View quote
Chuck Yeager
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing. View quote
Chuck Yeager
If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off. View quote
Chuck Yeager
What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it. View quote
Chuck Yeager
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. View quote
Chuck Yeager
In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since. View quote
Chuck Yeager
You get in, You shoot, You get out! View quote
Chuck Yeager
Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own. View quote
Chuck Yeager
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)
The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty. View quote
Chuck Yeager
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. View quote
Chuck Yeager
It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you. View quote
Chuck Yeager
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. View quote
Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager - Image
Occupation: American Aviator
Born: February 13, 1923
Died: December 7, 2020
Quotes count: 15

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