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ENUFF ALREADY Re: Report of Chuck Yeager accident in Georgia

Posted by Ballis on Sat Oct 04, 2003 08:30:07 PM

In reply top Report of Chuck Yeager accident in Georgia posted by AIRIC on Sat Oct 04, 2003 08:47:00 AM

: 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 ho
: nor at an aviation
: symposium.
:
: Neither Yeager, 80, nor his wife were injured, and their p
: lane was not
: seriously damaged in the accident at Heavens Landing, acco
: rding to the Rabun
: County Sheriffs Office.
:
: The community is honoring Yeager and other World War II ac
: es 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 O
: ct. 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 unfamil
: iar with his
: aerial exploits.
:
BOY this is getting heated. ENUFF ALREADY

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