Originally Posted by
AllWobbly
Read Robin Olds book he was of a different opinion. Yeager's biography doesn't paint him as a particularly nice character.
I have met Chuck Yeager in person and seen him carry himself in a group of highly competent and talented test pilots (to include a pilot with two MiG kills). I can tell you definitively that he is in fact an a$$hole. That he only made one star general after his storybook career is quite indicting. That said, his accomplishments deserve our respect.