It's your duty to fly the airplane. If you get killed in it, you don't know anything about it anyway. Duty is paramount. It's that simple if you're a military guy. You don't say 'I'm not going to do that - that's dangerous.' If it's your duty to do it, that's the way it is.
Chuck YeagerIt wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.
Chuck YeagerUnfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.
Chuck Yeager