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meatman
10-15-2012, 11:32
At 89 years old broke the sound barrier on the 65th anniversary of when he did it for the first time. Nice work General.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/15/us/nevada-yeager-anniversary-flight/index.html


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UncleDave
10-15-2012, 11:36
Very cool. He's 89 and still has "the right stuff"! :D
MCarp71
10-15-2012, 12:13
That is just Freakin' Awesome!
rockhound
10-15-2012, 14:10
he is an original badass
asmo
10-15-2012, 16:21
Yeah but apparently Felix went warp speed. Its on the news so it must be true:


https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/66393_496864643664683_2015776716_n.jpg
sniper7
10-15-2012, 16:26
too cool!
MrPrena
10-15-2012, 16:28
[ROFL3] [ROFL2]


Yeah but apparently Felix went warp speed. Its on the news so it must be true:


https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/66393_496864643664683_2015776716_n.jpg
Aloha_Shooter
10-15-2012, 16:50
Yeah but apparently Felix went warp speed. Its on the news so it must be true:


https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/66393_496864643664683_2015776716_n.jpg

MSNBC. Why am I not surprised?
Atrain1
10-15-2012, 18:11
I remember the episode of Quantum leap were he leaped into the jet doing this. Yeah I used to watch Quantum leap.
meatman
10-15-2012, 18:13
I remember the episode of Quantum leap were he leaped into the jet doing this. Yeah I used to watch Quantum leap.


Yeah, I used to watch it too. But I watched an episode on Netflix a couple months ago... it was painful. [Tooth]
Sharpienads
10-15-2012, 18:29
Chuck Yeager, still a badass. That's awesome that the AF did that for him.
Rucker61
10-15-2012, 20:17
I wonder if he was chewing Beeman's.
soldier-of-the-apocalypse
10-15-2012, 20:23
I used to live down the street from his son his name was also chuck Yeager and I was good freinds with his grand son James Yeager