Grass Valley, CA…Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager, February 13, 1923 – December 7, 2020. The first man to break the sound barrier & maybe his words can help you break a few barriers yourself.

“I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.”

“You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.”

“If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it’s an outstanding landing.”

“You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.”

“The one word you use in military flying is duty. It’s your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It’s duty.”

“What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn’t help anything. You better try and figure out what’s happening and correct it.”