Just got done reading Chucks autobiography and highly recommend it to anyone interested in history and aircraft. It is a quick read and some of the stuff he pulled will make you go WOW! It details his life from birth to the mideighties (right after The Right Stuff came out). I give it 5 of 5 stars.
Demankat
I read this book for the first time about 6yrs ago and still find myself picking it up from time to time. Definitly a book that worked its way onto my bookshelf to stay. I love when he goes back to flying through hollers at home 
But your right, definetly a good book. It started an argument that I graciously backed out of only because it was my inlaws, because after seeing the book in my shelf my father inlaw made the statement that Yeager has now retired and spends his days looking for Noahs Ark?!?!? What can I say, they’re from wisconsin[:D]
I read it years ago, and have to agree that it is a great book about a great pilot.
I saw recently that some Air Force group was honoring him for some reason (sorry, I can’t remember all the details now, perhaps someone else knows more about it). The painted up an F-15 with “Glamorous Glennis” on it and he took it for a hop. Thing about that is he is in his 70’s now! How many 70±year-olds do you know who can still drive an Eagle!
He certainly is a remarkable gentleman - to think of the changes he’s seen and played a part in…amazing. It’s a great book.
Someone once told me that they wanted to build a model of every plane that Yeager flew. I cringe to think how many that was ( around 144 I think) and how expensive that would be. I love the part of the book where he took the plane to go hunting. I could just imagine him flying low to get the deer in sight.[8D] I heard that he authored some other books too and would love to get my hands on them.
Demankat
I’d love to read that book… I’ll have to track it down. He is surely one of the most accomplished pilots in the world. I recently watched a Discovery Wings show about the P-51 and some of the stories he told were really great. He’s someone I’d really like to sit down and chat with.
MusicCity, that must have been something from a few years ago. Yeager had one last flight in an F-15 to officially retire from flying military a/c, but this was several years ago. In '97, he flew an Eagle named “Glamorous Glennis” for the 50th anniversary of his breaking the sound barrier in the X-1. He went supersonic in that F-15 50 years to the minute after that first time. BTW, he’s in his early 80s now.
Yeah I read his book, too. Also got his autograph at EAA Oshkosh a while back [:D] (no, not in the book , unfortunately [:(])
Rocket
Yep, you are exactly right. I remember that now. I just read about it last year, but I remember now that the article I was reading said that it was in 1997. Thanks for refreshing my memory. The older I get the worse my memory gets!
Yeager once said that modern jets are easy to fly because they are basically overpowered centerline thrust airplanes.He said that whenever he stepped into a Mustang however he said to himself , Well Yeager,now your in a real airplane,Watch out. My sentiments exactly. Cheers! John.
In reply to the reason asked by Scott as to Yeager’s F-15 Glamorous Glennis flight. It was a celebration. The flight was timed so that Chuck Yeager again broke the sound barrier at the exact time and location as was the original flight. Cool huh?
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I read it years ago, and have to agree that it is a great book about a great pilot.
Scott Craig – Nashville, TN
One of the best lines in the book is when Yeager asks Ridley to calculate how many years he had left as a pilot and Ridely got his slide rule out and calculated the Yeager died years ago. [:D] A great read about a wonderful time in history
He’s probably right about that, unfortunately I’ve never had the opportunity to find out. The hottest thing I’ve ever flown was a Mooney 231 [:)] I would truly love to be able to agree or disagree with that statement from a position of personal experience.
Very, very cool [tup] A fitting tribute to a heckuva flyer.
My wife gave me the book for Christmas the year it was published. I’ll have to pull it off the shelf and read it again. It was very interesting and and if I remember right he attributed his remarkable career to his mechanical aptitude and learning as much as he could about the aircraft and systems, his great eyesight, and “Lady Luck”!