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Re: Yeager Wreck
Posted by Tim Savage on Thu Oct 02, 2003 09:16:29 PM
In reply top Yeager Wreck posted by Searching on Thu Oct 02, 2003 07:22:29 PM
: Has anyone heard of Yeager being involved with a T-6 wreck
: today in North Ga.?
Test pilot Chuck Yeager has landing mishap
The Associated Press - CLAYTON, Ga.
Famed test pilot Chuck Yeager went off the runway and into a small ditch Thursday after being caught in a cross wind while landing at a new airport community in northeast Georgia, where he was a guest of honor at an aviation symposium.
Neither Yeager, 80, nor his wife were injured, and their plane was not seriously damaged in the accident at Heavens Landing, according to the Rabun County Sheriffs Office.
The community is honoring Yeager and other World War II aces by naming its streets after them. The symposium was planned for 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Rabun County Civic Center.
Yeager was the first pilot to break the sound barrier on Oct. 14, 1947, in a bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane over the Mojave Desert in California. The flight was depicted in the 1983 movie, The Right Stuff, which made Yeagers name familiar to a generation of Americans unfamiliar with his aerial exploits.