Aviation Fatalities:
"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote
Personally, I wish he'd learn to keep his trap shut and just finish the
good ride life has given him.
This (latest) incident has only served to reinforce what I think about
him. I would not go across the street to hear him speak, and did not,
while he was speaking at OSH.
Respect has to be earned, every day we are on this spaceship we call
Earth. Yeager had respect at one time, but in my eyes, he has failed to
keep it.
Here we have two men, at one time, perhaps two of the finest pilots in the
program.
Fast forward to present time. Crossfield has had many people (in this
group even) saying what a good and genuine person he always seemed to be.
Then there is Yeger. Which one of them would you rather be compared to?
That says it all, IMHO.
Yet Yeager is still alive.
When Crossfield was raking in the dough during the 60's, Yeager was making
$700 a month and flying combat missions in Viet-Nam.
When Crossfield was making upwards of six figures plus speaking fees, Yeager
was making $400 and giving hundreds of talks for free....on his own time.
I suspect that there's a lot of bitterness behind it all.
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