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Report of Chuck Yeager accident in Georgia
Posted by AIRIC on Sat Oct 04, 2003 08:47:00 AM
In reply top null posted by null on null
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.
Follow Ups:
- IS IT TIME FOR CHUCK TO HANG UP HIS SPURS???? - JACK COOK Sat Oct 04, 2003 10:47:22 AM
- Was it his really fault? - Robert Hoover Sat Oct 04, 2003 02:14:13 PM
- Re: Was it his really fault? - JACK COOK Sat Oct 04, 2003 04:11:21 PM
- Re: Was it his really fault? - AndyG Sat Oct 04, 2003 04:38:34 PM
- Re: Was it his really fault? - AIRIC Sat Oct 04, 2003 05:53:37 PM
- Re: Was it his really fault? - Olivier Lacombe Sat Oct 04, 2003 06:09:02 PM
- Re: Was it his really fault? - AIRIC Sat Oct 04, 2003 08:48:18 PM
- Re: Was it his really fault? - JACK COOK Sat Oct 04, 2003 07:04:06 PM
- Class 3 medical good for 2 years in the USA? - Olivier Lacombe Sat Oct 04, 2003 07:19:23 PM
- "I'm not making judgements or saying it's true in this case! - AndyG Sun Oct 05, 2003 06:11:57 AM
- Re: "I'm not making judgements or saying it's true in this case! - JACK COOK Sun Oct 05, 2003 12:30:45 PM
- Re: Was it his really fault? - Olivier Lacombe Sat Oct 04, 2003 06:09:02 PM
- Re: Was it his really fault? - AIRIC Sat Oct 04, 2003 05:53:37 PM
- Re: Was it his really fault? - AndyG Sat Oct 04, 2003 04:38:34 PM
- Well said Robert - Tony Sun Oct 05, 2003 10:03:00 AM
- Re: Was it his really fault? - JE Sun Oct 05, 2003 12:34:14 PM
- Re: Was it his really fault? - JACK COOK Sat Oct 04, 2003 04:11:21 PM
- Was it his really fault? - Robert Hoover Sat Oct 04, 2003 02:14:13 PM
- ENUFF ALREADY Re: Report of Chuck Yeager accident in Georgia - Ballis Sat Oct 04, 2003 08:30:07 PM
- Re: ENUFF ALREADY taxi accident? - JE Sat Oct 04, 2003 10:42:11 PM