"Dudley Henriques" wrote:
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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He has a propensity for shooting from the hip when questioned by
reporters and can quite often stick his perferbial foot in his mouth.
To this day, Yeager still doesn't know how to handle the press. He is the
ultimate mixture of extreme talent, tremendous ability, and intellectual
stupidity.

I wouldn't call it stuoidity, but the fact he comes from a place where
plain talk and a lack of unmitigated bull**** is commonplace.

Understandable considering beginnigs and his "ride" to the top, wouldn't
you say?

Actually no, at least not in my opinion anyway.
Even when considering Yeager's back country beginnings, anyone who has been
exposed to him through his career (and I know a bunch :-) will tell you in
a nano second that his intelligence goes way beyond whatever boundaries
this factor might define in his life equation.
Perhaps intellillectual stupidity is the wrong phrase to use to describe
Yeager.

Let us not put too fine a point on this.

"Horse's ass" is the good old-fashioned term that I think best describes
Yeager. His remarks upon the death of a great aviator are more evidence of
his resemblance to an equine posterior--as if any more was needed after his
autobiography.

As was noted in AvWeb today, when Mr. Right Stuff ran a T-6 off the runway a
couple of years back, Scott Crossfield maintained a discreet silence, a sign
of a gentlemanly character missing in Yeager.

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Dan
C-172RG at BFM