Originally Posted by
JMock
Chuck Yeager wouldn’t have worked for the Swires anywayOver the last few weeks, he’s been responding to all manner of questions posed to him on Twitter – and giving some extremely forthright answers.
One follower asked General Yeager, lionised in Tom Wolfe’s book The Right Stuff, why he appeared to have a negative attitude towards the British.
He responded: ‘Arrogant. Nasty to Americans when we were over there saving them.
‘Nasty when I visited them a few years ago - wanted a whole lot for nothing.’
Read Robin Olds book he was of a different opinion. Yeager's biography doesn't paint him as a particularly nice character.