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If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

~Chuck Yeager

Topics: Airplane Away Day Good Landing Next Outstanding Use Walk You

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Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

~Chuck Yeager

Topics: Made Make Make Up Own People Rules Up Who Willing

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You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

~Chuck Yeager

Topics: Back Back Up Best Finally Give Long Next Thing Up You

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It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

~Chuck Yeager

Topics: Systems Would You

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If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

~Chuck Yeager

Topics: Back Got Grow Know Off Old Pilot Push Want You

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You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

~Chuck Yeager

Topics: Concentrate Done Getting Great Job Necessary Prevent Results Risk Risks Too You

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There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

~Chuck Yeager

Topics: Pilot Thing

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I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

~Chuck Yeager

Topics: About Afraid Airplane Alert Always Could Dying Emergency Equipment Everything Fear Flying Kept Learn Machine Made Me Respectful

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Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

~Chuck Yeager

Topics: Barrier Because End Experience Flight Had Knowledge Later Mission Our Real Realized Sky

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Never wait for trouble.

~Chuck Yeager

Topics: Never Trouble Wait

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Aviator

Born: February 13th, 1923

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