European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Books Yeager Book is the stuff of legend by Allen Cowan staff writer the first time he flew in an retired air Force Charles Chuck Yeager got the wrong but after taking my first air plane id rather have crawled across the country than go Back Yeager i took off for a spin with a maintenance flight officer testing a ship i had and i threw up All Over the Back staggering out of that damned thing As miserable As id Ever fortunately for Yeager didst during his next hours in More than 180 types of aircraft including russian migs Yeager survived assaults More harrowing than Hes been dropped from bombers in experimental aircraft whose Power systems had Hes dangled from chains in the flown without parachutes and been strapped into planes whose cockpits were sealed one of five seems to have done it and he tells it All in Yeager an a Little about the it seems to be a publishing perhaps coming at a time when americans Are searching for or role or people of Yeager Book has an Advance printing of More than publishers believe it will be a even bigger than which has become the biggest autobiography in publishing Yeager seems headed that it moved to 1 on the new York times Best seller list the second week it Yeager flying around the country promoting the on top of a promotional a july serialization in Playboy and a three Page review in the Book is and who does television commercials for a is just As Yeager and Leo Janos wrote the theres Little doubt these Are Yeager and theres also Little doubt Janos did most of the his credentials Janos has worked for the new York times and for time for nine including coverage of the Apollo space in he received the american Institute of physic United states steel foundation science writing Janos knows and and space and More he knows How to convert space Mambo jumbo into theres no great writing in this its not or or like what Thomas Wolfe gave the world in the right the Jano Yeager Book is easy to its not great but it Doest need to some stories need no the writers touch to draw in Yeager Story is one of this Book is a almost the nitpicks theres Little of Yeager personal life in the what kind of husband was Chuck especially in View of the fact he was rarely Home what kind of children did he being an Absentee Parent the Book suggests some heavy duty philandering As an accepted Way of life understood by in some sense that contradictory and since Yeager sets himself up As a righteous those Are the few and far and in no Way do they detract from the enjoyment this Book by the world probably knows that Yeager broke the sound Barrier in when Many thought it but that was Duck soup compared to faster flights in the More unstable the second generation Fastert unsound Chuck Yeager in 1955 at Rhei main Yeager lost it one and thought he was going to that happens when you plunge feet in 51 Yeager writes the thought flashed i lost my Ive had g forces yanked me upwards with such Force that my helmet cracked the without my seat i probably woul Dve been blasted right through the my pressure suit suddenly inflated with a loud i was gasping and my face plate being pounded to i wondered where in the sierras i was about to Drill a we were spinning Down through the sky like a desperate to i groped to the right of the instrument panel trying to find the Rheostat switch to turn up the heat in my but then the ship snapped violently Back on slamming me against the control stick and somehow hooking my helmet onto As i struggled to get free i had glimpses of Light and Light and through the fogged spinning i had less than a minute Yeager takes us along from shooting squirrels in the Woods to his Days As an shooting germans out of the skies during world War he became an Ace with five kills in one Day in exploits reported on the front Page of the stars and readers ride aloft in the x1 the Day Yeager goes through the and they plummet to Earth the Day he bails his Chute catches on and he almost Burns to death on the Way to the As he the seat tangles in the lines and sets the Chute on the Chute jarring and i sweated that those lines didst Burn Yeager i had a Quick sense of because the popping Randy Chute dislodged the then the seat smashed into my i got clobbered by the tube end of the glowing red and it just knocked the out of it hit me so hard that i really didst know what busted the faceplate out of my helmet i saw there was a burning stuff on that seat ignited the rubber Seal around my helmet and in the pure oxygen it erupted like a my head was engulfed in flames and i  i  see out of my left Eye where the seat had bashed i was choking to death on gasping to draw a i stuck my hand inside the open faceplate and tried to scoop in air to my gloved hand caught on the right but Yeager Doest see it that and he bristles at the hint of go Given question annoys me because it implies that a Guy who has the right stuff was born that i was born with unusually Good eyes and i was mechanically understood machines my nature was to stay Cool in tight is that the right stuff All i know is i worked my Tail off to learn How to and worked hard at it All the in the the one big reason Why i was a  Pilot was because i flew More than anybody if there is such a thing As the right stuff in then it is Yeager comes across As he sees nothing heroic in his just a Man doing a Job for his we All owe him a and people who dont know Why should take the time to find his autobiography is a Good starting August 1985 stripes Magazine 17