In 2006, Edwards Air Force Base unveiled a statue of ace airman Chuck Yeager, and the base’s historian, Jim Young, had just one thing to say about the man who, at the time of his death last week, had clocked more than six decades of flight.
“In an age of media-made heroes, he is the real deal.”
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