Have a video of CY and Bob Hoover on stage together at a Society of Experimental Test Pilots convention story telling, and CY is quite entertaining. Of course, CY being in the presence of his peers was unable to pull any of his usual ego massaging elements. Remember CY (in his book?) berating a pilot, who he taken out in a T-33 over the Edwards lake for area famil, for landing on the lake and getting the aircraft bogged. Turned out CY had told the pilot to land there, such is the game he played, oneupmanship.