You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
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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
Rocket propulsion was explored -- specifically, a turbo-pump-equipped rocket made by Reaction Motors Inc. Delivering 6,000 pounds of thrust, the acid-aniline-fueled engine was believed to be capable of boosting an airplane to the fringes of the known performance envelope,
Chuck Yeager
Never wait for trouble.
Chuck Yeager
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.
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He was in very bad weather and his airplane broke up.
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He had a program called Free Spirit, ... He split 1 million four ways between people who didn't conform to the normal. I did a couple of slow rolls with the X-1 (the plane in which he broke the sound barrier), and I guess he thought that qualified.
Chuck Yeager
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