chuck yeager died today at 97.
things general chuck yeager did:
- shot down 11 planes in WWII
- was shot down himself over france, evaded german patrols, joined a french resistance group to get out of france via the pyrenees and spain. he gained their trust by helping them build bombs, which he'd learned from his father
- broke the sound barrier with two broken ribs in what was essentially a rocket with a windshield that was dropped from a plane like a bomb
- flew dozens of experimental aircraft, sometimes in the same month, walking away from at least one well-known crash (the nf104)
- flew in korea and vietnam
- ~121 (?) confirmed kills
- power twitter user