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Offline nuchpatrick

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Pilot Chuck Yeager Goes Off Runway
« on: October 03, 2003, 08:04:32 AM »
I think it's time someone took his wing's... before he hurts some one. He's 80 and still going strong but.. I think someone needs to take his key's away...




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Pilot Chuck Yeager Goes Off Runway
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 CLAYTON, Ga. (Oct. 3) - A plane flown by famed test pilot Chuck Yeager went off a runway and into a ditch Thursday while taxiing after landing.

Yeager, 80, had a bump on his head but neither he nor his wife, Victoria, was seriously injured in the accident at Heaven's Landing, said Mike Ciochetti Jr., developer of the new community built around a small airport.

Chiochetti said Yeager's single-engine, two-seat military training plane was caught in a cross wind.

"He was embarrassed," Ciochetti said. "Other pilots were watching, and they were humbled - when something like this happens to the best."

Heaven's Landing is honoring Yeager and other World War II aces by naming its streets after them.

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.


10/03/03 00:43 EDT
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Offline gofaster

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« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2003, 08:16:39 AM »
Oh, I don't know.  Crosswinds are tricky things.  Sometimes even the best get bitten.
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Re: Pilot Chuck Yeager Goes Off Runway
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2003, 08:32:35 AM »
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Originally posted by nuchpatrick
I think it's time someone took his wing's... before he hurts some one. He's 80 and still going strong but.. I think someone needs to take his key's away...


I'd rather have an 80 year old flying a cessna than an 80 year old driving a Lincoln on the interstate....

Oh wait....
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Offline LePaul

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« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2003, 08:40:38 AM »
I thought his wife's name was Glennis?

Oh wait.....dug around some...she passed away from cancer in 1991

Don't mind me....I'm refilling the coffee cup now
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Offline Maverick

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« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2003, 01:28:15 PM »
Seems to me that another pilots wings were clipped by the unsubstantiated opinion  of a FAA observer. (ie Bob Hoover)  nuchpatrick, you applying to the faa or something????

An off runway excursion can be caused by factors totally out of the pilots control. :rolleyes:
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« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2003, 01:44:10 PM »
You can't take his wings away. I know his age and I know the argument, but you cannot take his wings away. America owes him that much.
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« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2003, 02:03:12 PM »
Good thing there wasn't any type of Farmers Market near the runway....
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« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2003, 02:08:58 PM »
I'm not trying to put down Yeager. He's a great pilot don't get me wrong. I'm just saying he may not be as sharp as he use to.

Theres a difference between a cessna and his personal Jet Trainer (T-33 I beleive).
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« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2003, 02:10:19 PM »
If he's 80 but has still a minimum of reflexes and coordination, with all the flight time he's got... I'd rather fly with him than with someone who just got his license.

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« Reply #9 on: October 03, 2003, 04:43:05 PM »
Right on cyrano
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« Reply #10 on: October 03, 2003, 04:58:34 PM »
Ya think she had her teeth out?  I almost hit a overpass embankment once............I wasn't going to say stop!  :D :D

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« Reply #11 on: October 03, 2003, 05:11:55 PM »
We should definately apply different standards to people based on how famous they are or how much they've contributed to our country.  

If someone fought in WWII, then they should be allowed to drive any way they want, even if they are blind.

This should apply to pilots too.  Even if Chuck Yeager starts crashing into parked planes and doing accidental loops into terrain, we should continue to look the other way because he broke the sound barrier.

Did I sum up the above arguments correctly?

If so, I'd like some clarification on how big a contribution or sacrifice someone has to make to be exempt from the rules everyone else follows.  Can this be applied retroactively to all those WWII vets that have lost their licenses due to unsafe driving?
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« Reply #12 on: October 03, 2003, 05:19:29 PM »
You took one comment out of the whole thread and had a piss fit with it .. is what you did. Chuck went off the runway due to a crosswind. If you show me evidence that every pilot this has happened to had his ticket pulled then your "counter-argument" may be worth a damn. ;)

Take a `lude, shuck the `tude and have a nice day. :D
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« Reply #13 on: October 03, 2003, 05:45:11 PM »
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You took one comment out of the whole thread and had a piss fit with it .. is what you did.


Gezzz Arlo.. I didn't know were not aloud to voice our opinions here....  I'll remember that for future posts.

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« Reply #14 on: October 03, 2003, 06:14:43 PM »
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Gezzz Arlo.. I didn't know were not aloud to voice our opinions here....  I'll remember that for future posts.

:rolleyes:


Should I refer to you two as Nuchboy or Chairpatrick? Well ... either way ... anyone who thinks that they have a right to an opinion but others don't have a right to a differing one is a handsomehunk. :D :rofl
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