Tony P wrote:Adam the Akrodude wrote: Still think it was totally crass how Yeager to say what he did a day after the crash.
He was right though.
Very easy to criticise the dead, as they have no way of defending themselves. When Yeager destroyed that multi-million dollar NF-104A, it finished it's use at his test pilots school - all because of his own ego. No other test pilot students got to fly the NF-104A because of Yeager.