Episode 351: 5 Days of Christmas Immortals – Chuck Yeager
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Perhaps the most famous pilot of his generation, General Chuck Yeager is best known for breaking the sound barrier in 1947. Newt takes a closer look at his life and legacy – and we hear from General Yeager, in his own words. Part of the Immortals leadership series
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| 0:00.0 | The first man in the world to accomplish this feat, this spectacular flight was one of the |
| 0:24.5 | greatest achievements since the Wright Brothers at K.H. On this episode of N.N.S. World, I'm going |
| 0:33.6 | to talk about Chuck Yeager and we're going to listen to Chuck Yeager talk about himself. He was a |
| 0:39.7 | remarkable man and his passing was a reminder that he was an example at a personal level of what |
| 0:49.6 | American exceptionalism is all about because he was a high school graduate from West Virginia who |
| 0:57.1 | went on from there to remarkable achievements serving his country as a patriot having unique physical |
| 1:06.5 | talents that made him a remarkable pilot with apparently spectacular eyesight and at the same |
| 1:13.5 | time somebody who had both the commitment to the professional flying and who was eager to be |
| 1:23.3 | fully involved in the development of modern aviation. He just estimated that in his lifetime he flew |
| 1:30.0 | 200 types of military aircraft. He had more than 14,000 flying hours with over 13,000 of those in |
| 1:38.1 | fighter aircraft. It all began at the beginning of World War II when he joined up as an enlisted |
| 1:54.8 | person and then found himself in what was at the time a program that you could get into as an |
| 2:02.1 | enlisted person and he became a pilot. He then got the equivalent of being a warrant officer in |
| 2:08.1 | modern terms and it was a very brief period where the Army Air Force was willing to have people |
| 2:16.4 | who were not college graduates. I thought it was a great example of how America has moved from |
| 2:22.4 | achievement to certification that by the time about a quarter century later that he was extraordinarily |
| 2:30.6 | skilled, extraordinarily experienced, how the world record as the first person to fly faster |
| 2:36.5 | than the speed of sound and level flight with all of that going for him. By the time we got to |
| 2:41.2 | the Apollo program if you didn't have a college degree you couldn't be an astronaut. |
| 2:46.8 | So he ended up training the astronauts that he was not eligible to fly with and just told you |
| 2:53.4 | a little bit about how America had moved away from pure achievement and pure skill to an academic |
| 3:00.3 | requirement that may or may not be as relevant frankly. So he gave you a flavor of how many things he |
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