Chuck Yeager Quotes (page 2)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
