Chuck Yeager died this week. The greatest test pilot to ever strap himself into “a hurtling piece of machinery and put his hide on the line” as Tom Wolfe described his chosen job in The Right Stuff, defied the typically short life span of those in his profession and lived to a ripe old age of 97. As more and more of these midcentury Cold War era heroes …
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