Yeager was shot down in WW2 and bailed-out/parachute descended and later ejected/parachute descended from his NF-104 Starfighter rocket-jet or he'd be known today as "THE LATE great Chuck Yeager". How about X-15 aerospace rocket plane pilot Scott Crossfield dying recently in his smallplane broken up in a thunderstorm? Anyone know where aviation world record holder Steve Fossett is? Crossfield, Fossett and a THOUSANDS of people would be alive today had they had and employed a recovery ...