[Closed] Chuck Yeager

That does look rather lovely...

I guess he got to fly pretty much any aircraft he wanted to once he became a celebrity test-pilot, here's the aircraft types listed in his Wikipedia page.

To be fair to Chuck, the infamous F-104 he flew was a highly modified prototype with a dirty great big rocket booster fitted (8th pic down in thols2's post above) because who wouldn't want to fly a prototype F-104 with a dirty great big rocket on it?

when he had his near-fatal crash

Sadly he was in good company, rocket booster or not.

Article a bit like thols2 up there ^^ but with words

While mankind's first supersonic flight will forever link Yeager with the X-1 in the public's collective imagination, The War Zone pays tribute to the legendary pilot by looking at some of the other defining aircraft that he flew during his unmatched flying career and uniquely colorful life.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38029/chuck-yeagers-amazing-life-told-through-the-airplanes-he-flew

Good read, thanks for sharing. 🙂

Man was a legend. RIP.