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By: fritz8945

fritz8945 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:31:52 +0000

Hey, I’m not saying Air Force is any better than Army. I’m just giving history.

By: Outlaw13

Outlaw13 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:28:11 +0000

And they started building golf courses that happened to have runways nearby and called them Air Force Bases.

By: fritz8945

fritz8945 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:41:33 +0000

“Pushing the Envelope” was a practice that doesn’t happen much anymore. There are so many rules and regulations to prevent this type of “individual hotdogging”, if you will. The old saying, “You’ve got to break a few eggs to make an omelet” doesn’t fly too much these days, because there’s going to be a lawyer (sorry Floyd) to meet you after your heroic effort, with a subpoena in hand, for your trashing of the rulebook.

Having a short personal history with Chuck Yeager has taught me that the man was a definite enigma. He broke some rules, yes. But he was creative about it, and for the most part the history, be it myth or fact, is on the plus side for the truth.

By: JohnFN

JohnFN — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:30:02 +0000

I’ve read “The Right Stuff” four times and I still visit it occasionally. My favorite story is Yeager’s crash in the NF-104. He burns half his face off and takes half his pinky off his hand. Despite all this, he manages to find some kid after landing and chats it up with him while waiting for the rescue copter, calm as could be.

And Chuck Yeager doesn’t do a push-up – he pushes the Earth down.

By: Scott M.

Scott M. — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:55:18 +0000

Rufus just likes saying Fokkers

By: fritz8945

fritz8945 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:06:27 +0000

The Air Force technically came into being in 1947, at which time most of the aviation and fliers were changed over to the USAF.

By: Republibot 3.0

Republibot 3.0 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:36:30 +0000

Chuck Yeager wrote The Aneid. He also once destroyed an entire galaxy just by flexing his wrists.

Rufus: There wasn’t an air force in those days. If you flew, you were either a Naval Aviator, a Marine Aviator, or you were part of the United States Army Air Corps. Chuck was the latter.

By: Matt Helm

Matt Helm — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:15:58 +0000

The Right Stuff is on TCM tonight, 10 EST, if anyone is interested.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:11:05 +0000

Hey I raise you a Red Baron Rufus!

By: Rufus

Rufus — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:40:50 +0000

…and those fokkers were flying Messerschmitts…