I did this video through the lens of his friendship with Jackie because it's something a lot of people don't know, and also that's how I can show you pictures of him topless sighting her runs or in the pool at her house. There are plenty of books telling the same stories about his flights if you'd rather read that, including my own Breaking the Chains of Gravity. I didn't want to retell the same stories you all already know. I wanted to do something different: his own remembrance of a close friend.

If you want a standard pilot story about his Mach 1 flight, here:    • Ego vs. Ego: The Race for Mach 2  
And another one about the X-1A flight:    • Yeager's Wild Ride in the X-1A  

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Fighting for Space: https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Space...

Breaking the Chains of Gravity: https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Chain...

My companion article on Medium: https://medium.com/the-vintage-space/...

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