Daily Life with Chuck Yeager – The Chuck Yeager Foundation

March 6-9 Hiding in Plain Sight from Germans and French Milice

By Victoria Yeager / March 9, 2021

March 6-9, 1944 Shot down March 5, 1944, still hiding from the Germans and French Milice. I spent the night in a house in plain sight in Casteljaloux, France. I was hidden under the house in a space which extended from the front to the back of the house, a small window at either end…

Great Aviatrix, Pancho Barnes, in Chuck Yeager’s Own Words

By Victoria Yeager / March 2, 2021

I first met Pancho Barnes on my first trip to Muroc in 1945, when we were testing Shooting Stars. Pancho was 46 when I first met her. She had black hair and dark eyes, slim hips and broad shoulders. She would never use a 5 or 6 letter word when a four-letter word would do.…

I Never Lost a Pilot While Flying Chase by Chuck Yeager

By Victoria Yeager / February 24, 2021

Many, many pilots died testing airplanes over the Mojave desert from Muroc, then Edwards AFB, CA. Over 51 streets were named after those who lost their lives flying test. Even Edwards is named after Glen Edwards. General Yeager’s own words flying chase for test pilots: I never lost a pilot while flying chase; but there…

B-51 – Chuck Yeager & Russ Schleeh

By Victoria Yeager / May 17, 2014

Even Col Boyd never got to fly it – although he wanted to do so, he never found the time. In the ’50s, I used to fly it cross country to get home to Hamlin – speedy for its day. Three engines. Russ Schleeh and I were two of the first to fly it. Only…

Before Testing the MiG 15 – Korea – Chuck Yeager

By Victoria Yeager / August 22, 2013

This evening this was one of many stories General Yeager related to me: While prepping to test the MiG in Korea, a staff car came up. Gen Boyd got out. Pouring w/rain. Gen Boyd to me: Come here I want you to meet somebody. It was a 4 star general. 4 star general to me:…

Flying Pennsylvania Ave, Wash., DC for General/Mamie Eisenhower

By Victoria Yeager / August 4, 2013

General Yeager had agreed to serve as Grand Marshal for the National Memorial Day Parade 2012. He was honored to accept on behalf of and representing veterans to honor those who had died. Just before the Parade started, he was asked to speak. So that is how General Yeager came to be standing in front…

The Hell There Ain’t….

By Victoria Yeager / July 10, 2013

General Yeager told me this story July 10, 2013: Jack Ridley was itching to fly the X-1 after we succeeded in breaking the sound barrier. Finally, when he got his chance, he asked if I would fly chase. Almost every flight in the X-1 had an issue from electricity going out, to no radio, to…

“Chuck, I can’t see in here!”

By Victoria Yeager / July 10, 2013

General Yeager: I never lost a pilot while flying chase, but there were many close calls. From Carl Bellinger: Flying chase was an art that not many test pilots bothered to perfect. There’s no glory flying chase – no goal assist, no brownie points. But a skilled and dedicated chase pilot often meant the difference…

In Search of Chuck Yeager’s Evading Germans 1944

By Victoria Yeager / April 22, 2013

I had wanted to explore with CY the places where CY had been shot down and was working with the Maquis, escaping into Spain. Finding specific spots was an adventure. Not many who were involved in 1944 were still around, kids didn’t get the history from their parents, many would-be not so good historians who…

March 8, 1944

By Victoria Yeager / March 6, 2013

At night, a couple of men take me to a farm where I spend a week with a young couple with a young son. It’s off the beaten path. The house is beyond some tall hedges and fairly far in from the road. I spend a lot of time playing soccer with their young son.…

Why Chuck Yeager is an American Hero by Bob Crowley

By Victoria Yeager / March 23, 2012

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Bob Crowley <bobcrowley@att.net> wrote: A few years back, I wrote this piece for the WBAP-AM website: General Chuck Yeager is coming to town February 11th. He will be giving a talk at the C.R. Smith Museum near D-FW Airport. I have had the opportunity to hear a past lecture at…

Fishing on the Tsiu – third day

By Victoria Yeager / September 10, 2010

c. GCYI Photo taken by Victoria Yeager The next day, General Yeager and I headed down 7 miles to the mouth of the river. Each year it changes – a couple years ago, it was 4 miles to the mouth. We ran into the others from the lodge coming back – they had started at the ungodly hour of…