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'Chuck Yeager' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Pancho Barnes (1988)

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The Right Stuff (1983)

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Tom Wolfe's book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be in it. Thrilling, funny, charming and electrifying all at once.

Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, adultery, aerospace-film, aircraft-carrier, airplane-accident, astronaut, australian-aboriginal, aviation

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By flying higher and faster than any other man had ever dared before, Chuck Yeager set the pace for a new breed of hero. Those that had just one thing in common...THE RIGHT STUFF.
How the future began.
America was looking for a hero who had what it takes to become a legend. America found seven of them.

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[first lines]::Narrator: There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier.

[about Yeager's bruised ribs]::Jack Ridley: How bad did you ding 'em?::Chuck Yeager: Well, you might say as I broke a couple of the sons-o'-bitches.

[repeated lines]::Chuck Yeager: Hey, Ridley, ya got any Beeman's?::Jack Ridley: Yeah, I think I got me a stick.::Chuck Yeager: Loan me some, will ya? I'll pay ya back later.::Jack Ridley: Fair enough.

Gordon Cooper: You boys know what makes this bird go up? FUNDING makes this bird go up.::Gus Grissom: He's right. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.

Chuck Yeager: Hey, Ridley, make another note here, would ya? Must be something wrong with this ol' Mach meter. Jumped plumb off the scale. Gone kinda screwy on me.::Jack Ridley: You go ahead and bust it, we'll fix it. Personally, I think you're seein' things.::Chuck Yeager: Yeah, could be. But I'm still goin' upstairs like a bat outta hell.

Chuck Yeager: I'm a fearless man, but I'm scared to death of you.::Glennis Yeager: Oh no you're not. But you oughta be.

Alan Shepard: Dear Lord, please don't let me fuck up.::Gordon Cooper: I didn't quite copy that. Say again, please.::Alan Shepard: I said everything's A-OK.

Pancho Barnes: What are you two rookies gonna have?::Gordon Cooper: Rookies? Now hold on, sis. You are looking at a whole new ballgame here now. In fact, in a couple of years, I bet you're even gonna immortalize us by putting our pictures up there on your wall. [unwittingly referring to the dead pilot memorial over the bar] What? I say somethin' wrong here?::Pancho Barnes: I tell you, we got two categories of pilots around here. We got your prime pilots that get all the hot planes, and we got your pud-knockers who dream about getting the hot planes. Now what are you two pud-knockers gonna have? Huh?

Chief Scientist: I agree with those who say we could launch a pod.::Lyndon Johnson: A pot?::Chief Scientist: A POD - a, uh, capsule. Now, we would be in full control of zis pod. It vill go up like a cannonball, and come down like, uh, a cannonball, splashing down into ze water, the ocean, vith a parachute to spare the life of the specimen inside.::Lyndon Johnson: Spaceman?::Chief Scientist: SPE-CI-MEN.::Lyndon Johnson: Well, what kind of spe-ci-men?::Chief Scientist: A tough one. Responsive to orders. I had in mind a jimp.::Lyndon Johnson: JIMP? Well what the HELL is a jimp?::Chief Scientist: A jimp. A-a-a jimpanzee, Senator. An ape.

Game Show MC: Major, Eddie here has a little problem with his girlfriend. Did you ever have a problem like that when you were 10?::John Glenn: Yes, I did, Bob. I liked a girl in my class, but all the other guys liked her too and she didn't pay any attention. But, I kept after her, Eddie.::Game Show MC: Did you finally get her to notice you?::John Glenn: Yes, I did. In fact, I finally got her to marry me.

Yeager, Chuck Filmography

The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
Thunder in the Desert
2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
The Real Men with 'The Right Stuff'
2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
Realizing 'The Right Stuff'
2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
100 Years of the World Series
2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
Rocket Science
2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
Presidential Inaugural Gala
1989, role: actor , character name: Himself
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary
1986, role: actor , character name: Himself
Spaceflight
1985, role: actor , character name: Himself
Flying Without Fear
1985, role: actor
Speed
1984, role: actor , character name: Himself
The Right Stuff
1983, role: actor , character name: Fred
The Right Stuff
1983, role: miscellaneous crew
Smokey and the Bandit II
1980, role: actor , character name: Party Guest

Eighty-Nine Year Old Chuck Yeager • F-15 Eagle Honor Flight

Duration: 5:39
Updated: 26 Mar 2015

General Chuck Yeager, at the ripe old age of 89 years, boards an F-15 Eagle at Nellis AFB as part of an honor flight. The flight was conducted in recognition of the first manned supersonic flight, when Yeager broke the sound barrier in an experimental Bell X-1 aircraft on October 14, 1947. Filmed on October 14, 2012. Film Credits: SrA Cody Griffith, SrA Aaron Hauser, Todd Lane, William Lewis, SrA Rachel Maxwell, SSgt Jose Rodriguez

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First pilot to travel faster than sound - Chuck Yeager goes supersonic again in F-15 | AiirSource

Duration: 5:26
Updated: 22 Jun 2013
author: AiirSource

General Chuck Yeager Supersonic Reenactment - Ground Launch. General Chuck Yeager entering his plane and then taking off to reenact his supersonic flight wit...

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Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier

Duration: 6:17
Updated: 01 Sep 2014
author: Mr. Midshipman

Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier Oct 14 1947 at Edwards air force base. I seen the other breaking the sound barrier videos too. This is the down home pe...

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Interview with Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager, part 1

Duration: 4:50
Updated: 13 Aug 2013
author: WVPublicBroadcasting

Mike Youngren of West Virginia Public Broadcasting interviews Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager. This interview aired Oct. 19, 2006, on the program "Outlook."

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Chuck Yeager Pushing The Limits (The Right Stuff)

Duration: 7:29
Updated: 04 Sep 2014
author: pangeaprogressblog

Chuck Yeager is unquestionably the most famous test pilot of all time. He won a permanent place in the history of aviation as the first pilot ever to fly fas...

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What's My Line? - Bob Cummings; Chuck Yeager; Steve Lawrence [panel] (Aug 23, 1964)

Duration: 24:22
Updated: 03 Oct 2014

MYSTERY GUEST: Bob Cummings PANEL: Arlene Francis, Steve Lawrence, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf NOTE: Also features Chuck Yeager, surprisingly *not* as a mystery guest.

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The Sound Barrier Documentary on the Quest to Break the Sound Barrier

Duration: 49:31
Updated: 22 Mar 2014

Director/Producer -- David Lean, Screenplay -- Terence Rattigan, Photography (b&w;) -- Jack Hildyard, Aerial Unit Director -- Anthony Squire, Aerial Unit Photography -- Jo Jago, Peter Newbrook & John Wilcox, Music -- Malcolm Arnold, Music Conductor -- Muir Matheson, Makeup -- George Partleton, Set Design -- Vincent Korda. Production Company -- British Lion. Cast: Ralph Richardson (J.R. Ridgefield), Ann Todd (Sue Ridgefield Garthwaite), Nigel Patrick (Tony Garthwaite), John Justin (Philip Peel), Joseph Tomelty (Will Scott), Denholm Elliott (Christopher Ridgefield), Dinah Sheridan (Jess Peel) Plot: RAF officer Tony Garthwaite marries Sue Ridgefield, the daughter of airplane manufacturer J.R. Ridgefield. After the end of the War, Tony accepts a job as Ridgefield's top test pilot. Ridgefield is determined to build the first jet to break the sound barrier. As Tony volunteers for the exceedingly dangerous mission of flying the plane intended to do so, Sue becomes afraid of her father's disregard of human life in his single-minded determination to achieve his goal. The Sound Barrier is an interesting case where one is not sure whether to list it as a science-fiction film or not. It concerns a scientific breakthrough -- the idea of a plane travelling faster than the speed of sound, breaking the titular 'sound barrier' -- yet at the time it was made it was not a science-fiction film -- the sound barrier had been broken five years earlier in October, 1947 by Chuck Yeager. Certainly, Yeager's exploit was covered up by US Department of Defense secrecy for some time but it was publicly known at the time The Sound Barrier was made and Yeager was even used as part of the publicity during the film's American premiere. Despite this, The Sound Barrier proceeds as though Chuck Yeager's breakthrough had not occurred and as though it is telling the story of how the sound barrier was or would be broken. Tom Wolfe's book The Right Stuff (1979) tells how the film in fact altered public perception about how the sound barrier was broken. There Wolfe amusingly recounts how Yeager became fed up with the belief that the film was a dramatization of the real events and that the British rather than he had been the ones who first broke the sound barrier, and secondly with the notion that the secret of breaking through the sound barrier was reversing the controls at the last moment -- something that in actuality would have destroyed the plane. The Sound Barrier is a film that is struck with awe at the scientific possibilities offered by the Jet Age. For instance, the models of the planes used in the film are listed right after the names of the actors. There is a long sequence inserted solely to show the sheer amazement of flying from England to Cairo in five hours rather than five days. This was also the first film to use aerial footage of actual jets. It is interesting to compare The Sound Barrier to Philip Kaufman's film of The Right Stuff (1983). Both are concerned with the breaking of the sound barrier. The Right Stuff is enamoured with the sheer ballsy heroism of the men, their ability to stand above normal fear -- their having 'the right stuff'. On the other hand, The Sound Barrier regards such a breakthrough as being an enormously risky but that the men are simply ordinary pilots doing their duty. The Right Stuff concerns itself with the human challenge to achieve extraordinary feats; in contrast, The Sound Barrier concerns itself with the question of whether sending men into almost certainly fatal situations is a fair cost of progress. It would have been interesting to see The Right Stuff written from this perspective -- of the moral doubts the engineers and controllers must have had in not being certain that the pilots would survive in the planes and rockets they designed. In fact, this focus makes The Sound Barrier into a Frankenstein film of sorts and paints the ambition of Ralph Richardson's industrialist as monstrous for so demandingly pushing the people that work for him. Ultimately of course, the sound barrier is broken and the human cost is seen as having been worth it. The film goes out on an end speech, reminiscent of the end of Things to Come (1936), with Ralph Richardson and daughter Ann Todd looking up at the stars and he commenting "The universe is so unconscious of our presence," with the implication being that now that they have the courage, vision and engineering know-how, the universe is the next barrier. Ralph Richardson plays with a determined ruthlessness. It is a bullish performance that dominates the entire film and one that had Richardson receiving a number for awards for the part -- the BAFTAs, the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle Award. The film itself was nominated for the Best Screenplay Oscar and won the BAFTA for Best Picture and the National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Picture.

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Chuck Yeager breaks The Sound Barrier (from THE RIGHT STUFF)

Duration: 3:54
Updated: 31 Aug 2014
author: TheAtomicFlowers

On the ground, no one had ever heard a sonic boom before. It rattled the photographs of the pilots who had died facing the demon and it was assumed that Yeag...

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First man to fly supersonic - Chuck Yeager, age 90, goes supersonic again in a F-18 | AiirSource

Duration: 2:50
Updated: 16 May 2013
author: AiirSource

Video of Gen. Chuck Yeager Supersonic Reenactment aerial footage. Available in high definition. Location: Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. Video by Staff Sgt. Jos...

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34-minute 1983 interviews on the movie influenced Nolan's 'Interstellar' - 'The Right Stuff'

Duration: 34:03
Updated: 27 Oct 2014

Great, rare 34-minute vintage 1983 interviews on one of the movies which influenced Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar' - 'The Right Stuff.' With director Philip Kaufman, Chuck Yeager, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, Lance Henriksen, Walter Schirra, Scott Glen, Barbara Hershey, Victoria Cartwright. "Philip Kaufman’s epic adaptation of the Tom Wolfe book, itself an account of the birth of the US space program, is arguably the biggest, most direct influence on Interstellar. Nolan and his creative team constantly referred back to NASA and the realities of space travel. So just as they visited the California Space Centre to view the Endeavor space shuttle close up, they also sat and watched The Right Stuff, taking detailed notes — on the filmmaking techniques especially. “At the time, you couldn’t get it on Blu-ray,” laughs Nolan, “and I was actually hassling Warner Home Video to put it out, because it’s a marvellous film. But we screened a print of it. I’ve actually screened two different prints of it. One print was fantastic. What they did in-camera, with all these great projections through windows, so you’ve got the real reflections in the helmets and all that... You know, we just looked at that and I said, ‘Guys, it’s so much easier for us to do that now than it was for them. So we have no excuse not be doing these things in-camera. We can’t just throw it all to the visual effects guys!’ And we didn’t.” In the form of test-pilot Chuck Yeager (played by Sam Shepard), Nolan also found the ideal for his lead character, Cooper, and through that was driven to cast Shepard’s co-star in Mud (produced by a friend of Nolan’s, Aaron Ryder): Matthew McConaughey…" Empire Magazine

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Chuck Yeager

Duration: 3:46
Updated: 02 Jul 2013
author: evemag13

The original Right Stuff.

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Chuck Yeager

Duration: 3:14
Updated: 07 Jul 2013
author: The Union Newspaper of Grass Valley, CA

General Chuck Yeager returns after taking a flight over Nevada and Yuba Counties with The Union photographer John Hart.

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Chuck Yeager P51 Flight Indianapolis 1994

Duration: 9:10
Updated: 16 Jul 2013
author: Gabriel Jose

On 28 May 1994, General Chuck Yeager flew a replica of his WW2 aircraft the Glamorous Glen III, in a four ship P51 rehearsal flight before the Indy 500 the n...

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CHUCK YEAGER INTERVIEW FROM 1968.wmv

Duration: 14:31
Updated: 25 Aug 2014
author: Bobby Hill

JUST A LITTLE PIECE OF WAYNE COUNTY HISTORY.... THIS IS MY DAD, BOB HILL, INTERVIEWING THEN COL.(NOW GEN.) CHUCK YEAGER (THE FIRST MAN TO BREAK THE SOUND BAR...

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First Supersonic Flight: "Breaking the Sound Barrier" 1947 USAF; Chuck Yeager in the Bell X-1

Duration: 8:26
Updated: 11 Aug 2014
author: Jeff Quitney

more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/ Silent but detailed documentary of Chuck Yeager making the first supersonic flight in the Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis"...

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USAF Biography: Chuck Yeager 250186-07

Duration: 6:50
Updated: 13 Dec 2013
author: footagefarm

If you wish to acquire broadcast quality material of this reel or want to know more about our Public Domain collection, contact us at info@footagefarm.co.uk ...

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Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier -- X-1 -- 1947

Duration: 3:05
Updated: 10 Aug 2013
author: MotherboardTV

For more see http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/10/14/chuck-yeager-broke-the-sound-barrier-63-years-ago-today-video.

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The Right Stuff - Yeager Mach 1

Duration: 8:31
Updated: 28 Aug 2014
author: Jim Bryant

Scene from the movie "The Right Stuff" where Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier for the first time in history.

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General Chuck Yeager Spars w/ Jim Clash on Adventurer

Duration: 5:57
Updated: 01 Jul 2013
author: jimclash

The great test pilot Gen. Chuck Yeager, now 85, talks with Jim Clash about being first to break the sound barrier (in 1947), "The Right Stuff" book and movie...

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General Chuck Yeager Talks About Breaking The Sound Barrier

Duration: 2:31
Updated: 28 Jul 2014
author: Achim Thiemermann

During a fishing trip in Alaska, General Chuck Yeager shares some of his amazing stories with other guests at the lodge. What did it feel like, breaking thro...

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F-15D General (Ret) Chuck Yeager "Historic Supersonic Flight" Nellis AFB HD

Duration: 14:11
Updated: 02 Jun 2014

B-roll footage of General Chuck Yeager on the ground and preparing for his 14 October 2012 Supersonic flight, exactly 65 years after his record-breaking achievement.

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A Chuck Yeager's Challenge with NF-104

Duration: 9:47
Updated: 21 Jul 2013
author: Hyakusiki

Hey Ridley, you got any Beeman's?

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Chuck Yeager returns to Sort 66 years later

Duration: 14:52
Updated: 02 Jun 2013
author: TUCKIE10

Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager was officially the first pilot to break the sound barrier, on October 14th, 1947. Maybe this could not be possible if in 1944 Y...

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Interview with Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager, part 2

Duration: 4:37
Updated: 12 May 2013
author: WVPublicBroadcasting

Mike Youngren of West Virginia Public Broadcasting interviews Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager. This interview aired Oct. 19, 2006, on the program "Outlook."

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P-51 triple ace BUD ANDERSON recorded Nov 15, 2013

Duration: 87:44
Updated: 18 Aug 2014
author: sdasmarchives

Interview of Bud Anderson WW2 triple ace by Ron Carrico. Col. Anderson discusses how the USAAF defeated the Luftwaffe and describes several dogfights and tac...

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Chuck Yeager Part 3

Duration: 6:06
Updated: 18 Mar 2013
author: wvsky

This interview with General Chuck Yeager took place in South Charleston WV, only 30 miles from his childhood home. Here he talks about the many different air...

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Eighty Nine Year Old Chuck Yeager • F 15 Eagle Honor Flight

Duration: 10:29
Updated: 30 Mar 2015

Eighty Nine Year Old Chuck Yeager • F 15 Eagle Honor Flight General Chuck Yeager, at the ripe old age of 89 years, boards an F-15 Eagle at Nellis AFB as part of an honor flight. The flight was conducted in recognition of the first manned supersonic. It was my Honor to Guardian my Uncle Dell, WWII Veteran Navy Seabee on an Honor Flight to WA DC. Puget Sound Honor Flight take veterans to Washington DC on One Last Mission to see the . Welcoming home the veterans who went on the Honor Flight from Seatac. March 2015. Veterans Project Interview: 10:56 min US Army Veteran: C W Escher, WWII Interview location: Sun City Center, Florida Date: March 10, 2015 4 of 4 interviews Copyright 2015 Must obtain permission.

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Chuck Yeager's Air Combat (CYAC) F-4 vs 2x Mig-21

Duration: 5:19
Updated: 07 Jul 2013
author: Zorathros

A small dogfight in which I go in a F-4 against 2 Mig-21 in the game Chuck Yeager Air Combat. Chuck Yeager's Air Combat was a air combat simulator released i...

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Nepal's security personnel remove debris from a budget hotel that collapsed in Saturday’s earthquake, in Kalanki neighbourhood of Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, April 26, 2015.

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More than 2,200 confirmed dead in Nepal earthquake

Stars and Stripes

26 Apr 2015

KATHMANDU, Nepal — A powerful aftershock shook Nepal on Sunday, making buildings sway and sending panicked Kathmandu residents running into the streets a day after a massive earthquake left more than 2,200 people dead. The cawing of crows mixed with terrified screams as the magnitude 6.7 aftershock pummeled the capital city early Sunday afternoon ... "The aftershocks keep coming ... You can hear women and children crying." ... ___ ... ....

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An elderly injured woman is taken to her home after treatment in Bhaktapur near Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, April 26, 2015, following a deadly earthquake.

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Nepal earthquake: death toll climbs towards 2,000 as world responds

The Guardian

26 Apr 2015

Officials say more than 700 died in Kathmandu alone, and at least 17 killed by an avalanche on Mount Everest’s base camp. Rescue workers search for victims in Bhaktapur, near Kathmandu, on Sunday. Photograph. Niranjan Shrestha/AP. Anna Codrea-Rado, Pete Pattisson and Ishwar Rauniyar in Kathmandu, Jason Burke in Delhi, Justin McCurry, Robin McKie and agencies. Sunday 26 April 2015 08.07 BST ... Related. Everest avalanche ... We are all petrified.”....

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File - Armenians killed during the Armenian Genocide. Scenes like this were common all over the Armenian provinces, in the spring and summer months of 1915.

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Yes, the Slaughter of the Armenians Was Genocide

The Daily Beast

24 Apr 2015

The Turkish government may not want to admit it, but the murder and removal of millions of Armenians was genocide. Genocide is not the murder of people but the murder of a people ... Genocide, thus, is “ethnically inspired violence” but should be distinguished from ethnic cleansing, which may entail killing but more immediately involves displacement and deportation, the physical moving of a distinct population ... How Many Armenians? ... ....

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An injured man receives treatment outside the Medicare Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Saturday, April 25, 2015.

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Powerful earthquake kills at least 718 in Nepal, causes avalanches in Himalayas, officials say

Newsday

25 Apr 2015

Add comment Reprints + -. Volunteers help with rescue work at the site of a building that collapsed after an earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Saturday, April 25, 2015. Photo Credit. AP / Niranjan Shrestha. advertisement . advertise on newsday ... Everest. It was the worst tremor to hit the poor South Asian nation in over 80 years. At least 688 people were confirmed dead in Nepal, according to the police ... "It was very scary ... advertisement ... The U.S....

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Indonesian police armored vehicles carrying two Australians facing death penalty for drug offences Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan upon arrives on Wijaya Pura port in Cilacap,Central Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. File - Indonesian police armored vehicles carrying two Australians facing death penalty for drug offences Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan upon arrives on Wijaya Pura port in Cilacap,Central Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 4, 2015.

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Indonesia gives 72-hour executions notice

Boston Herald

26 Apr 2015

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia notified nine foreigners and a local man convicted of drug trafficking that their executions will be carried out within days, ignoring appeals by the U.N. chief and foreign leaders to spare them ... He said the legal options of nine of them have been exhausted, while Frenchman Serge Atlaoui still has an outstanding legal complaint over the procedure followed in his request for clemency ... U.N ... ___ ... More On. ... ....

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Seriously Long-Haul 10 Longest Non-Stop Flights from the United States

Big News Network

21 Apr 2015

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10 Longest Non-Stop Flights from the United States

Huffington Post

20 Apr 2015

Since the very beginnings of aviation in America, U.S. flyers have been trying to push the boundaries. Chuck Yeager cracked the sound barrier; Amelia Earhart crisscrossed the Atlantic Ocean, and Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong left footprints on the moon. Today, things are hardly any different, as a wealth of airlines really crank up the milometer counts with some seriously daunting air connections to destinations across the globe ... 10 ... 9 ... ....

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Column 8: The eye of the storm

Sydney Morning Herald

19 Apr 2015

"My research revealed at least three commonalities between Chuck Yeager and Stuart Wagstaff," reports Michael Sparks, C8PhD of Braddon, ACT ("triskaidekatical", Column 8, since Wednesday) ... (Chuck Yeager had a cameo role in the film The Right Stuff.) Are there more?" Funnily enough, we believe that Stuart ......

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Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker review – calming thoughts for nervous flyers

The Guardian

11 Apr 2015

Photograph ... In The Right Stuff, Wolfe points out that, from the 1950s onwards, anyone who flew planes, from test pilots to those slogging along the commercial routes, adopted the “chucklin’ and driftin’ and lollygaggin’” drawl of Chuck Yeager, the farm boy who busted the sound barrier. But aside from a shared unhurriedness, there is no overlap between Yeager’s folksiness and Vanhoenacker’s polite, mid-Atlantic polish ... ....

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Abe Vigoda is alive, and he’s 94

The Charlotte Observer

07 Apr 2015

Something happened after Abe Vigoda reached retirement age. The Internet happened. And the Internet loves Abe Vigoda, who turned 94 in February. The actor is best known for playing Det ... Still with us. Celebrities 85 and older. I have Outlook meeting reminders set for whenever anyone in the gallery celebrates a birthday ... 17, Chuck Yeager, who turned 92 on Feb ... 31 ... 17 ... 24, 2016. Can’t wait. ....

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Why the Corvette is still the ultimate muscle car

The Examiner

06 Apr 2015

If you’re a fan of Chevy muscle cars (or muscle cars from any other manufacturer), you probably have a favorite make, model, year and trim ... Whether you're a casual fan or a diehard restorer of muscle cars, you can't deny the allure of the classic Corvette. There are seven generations of Chevy Corvette .. C1 ... C2 ... C3 ... C4 ... C5 ... C6 ... C7 ... Corvette pace cars ... 1986 (driven by Chuck Yeager and responsible for more than 7,000 replicas). 1995. 1998. 2002 ... 2007....

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The 13 most powerful female superheroes right now (pictures)

CNET

02 Apr 2015

From the all-woman Avengers to the upcoming Supergirl, we're definitely looking at a heroine renaissance. Read Less. Super heroines. It's never been a better time to be a female crime-fighter. In early 2015, Marvel announced the A-Force, an all-female hero lineup. She-Hulk and Co ... Published. April 1, 2015 5.35 PM PDT ... Thor ... Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick says the current series can "pretty much be summed up with 'Carol Danvers as Chuck Yeager'."....

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SpaceShipOne 'Lands' on Smithsonian Floor as Museum Renovates Hall

Yahoo Daily News

31 Mar 2015

SpaceShipOne, the world's first privately-built piloted spacecraft, has touched down after a decade in 'Flight.' ... View gallery ... 4 of the same year ... Swapping places with the Bell X-1 that Chuck Yeager flew to become the first to break the sound barrier, SpaceShipOne will be hung in a perpetual landing, with its unique "feathers" deployed in the shuttlecock form that set it apart from previous vehicles ... Now Boarding....

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William Gray Warden III, 82, executive

Philadelphia Daily News

27 Mar 2015

William Gray Warden III, 82, of Newtown Square, a business executive and sailor, died Wednesday, March 18, of causes related to aging at his second home in the Bahamas. A native of Haverford, Delaware County, Mr ... the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered vessel; the Bell X-1, in which pilot Chuck Yeager became the first man to break the sound barrier; and the Apollo Project, which put the first man on the moon ... Warden IV. Mr ... ....

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San Antonio was military air hub, from early flight to space

Stars and Stripes

24 Mar 2015

SAN ANTONIO (Tribune News Service) — Jim Lovell and a group of fellow prospective astronauts converging on Brooks AFB didn’t know that the advice given by Alan Shepard Jr., the first American to go into space, was a gag ... All of them figured that Shepard was serious when he told them how to deal with the Air Force psychiatrists ... space medicine ... Chuck Yeager almost lost control of an F-86A at 50 feet above the ground while flying 600 mph....

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Director of supersonic skydiving project speaking at State (South Dakota State University)

noodls

24 Mar 2015

(Source. South Dakota State University) Superman, the "faster than a speeding bullet" fictional hero, has nothing on real-life superman Felix Baumgartner. The former Austrian Army paratrooper skydived from 24 miles high to become the first person to break the sound barrier without an airplane ... 14, 2012 ... 14, 2012 ... Air Force Capt ... 14, 2012, the 65th anniversary of Chuck Yeager's first supersonic flight in an airplane ... (noodl....

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Talkeetna, Alaska, proudly keeps it weird

San Francisco Chronicle

20 Mar 2015

At the Fairview Inn in Talkeetna, Alaska, they take a perverse pride in the fact that their cooking may have killed a sitting U.S. president. Warren G ... Long before Talkeetna acquired its “Northern Exposure”-style quirkiness, it was renowned in aviation circles as the home of some of Alaska’s nerviest bush pilots — most notably Don Sheldon, a former World War II tail gunner who has been called the Chuck Yeager of glacier flying ... ....

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Exclusive First Look At Marvel's Newest Women-Driven Comic

Fast Company

10 Mar 2015

Marvel's superheroes are certainly successful in blockbusters, but some of the biggest successes in getting a new audience to actually read and buy comic books have had nothing to do with the movies ... I think that's important too ... I think that's important too." ... "People think because she's military, that means that she has to be no fun, and they use that to make her into a harpy or a nag, but remember that Chuck Yeager was military too ... ....