HERE IS A ONE-OF-A-KIND PIECE OF SIGNED CHUCK YEAGER MEMORABILIA. IT IS A FRAMED POSTER FROM THE 1964 NORTH AMERICAN WINTER FESTIVAL IN LAKE PLACID, NEW YORK. HOW HIS SIGNATURE ENDED UP ON THE POSTER IS PART OF THE CHUCK YEGER LEGEND. HERE'S A BRIEF VERSION.YEAGER HAD BEEN KING OF THE WINTER FESTIVAL IN 1963 BUT WAS SO BUSY BEING KING THAT HE DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO ENJOY HIMSELF. IN FEBRUARY OF 1964, HE WAS STATIONED AT EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE IN CALIFORNIA. HE WANTED TO RETURN TO LAKE PLACID TO SEE WHAT HE HAD MISSED THE YEAR BEFORE. SO, HE BORROWED A B-57 BOMBER AND ENLISTED JOE ENGLE(FUTURE NASA ASTRONAUT) TO BE HIS CO-PILOT. THEY GOT TO LAKE PLACID LATE THAT NIGHT. THE NEXT DAY, THEY HAD A RIDE ON A FOUR MAN BOBSLED. YEAGER AND ENGLE SAT IN THE MIDDLE SEATS. THIS WAS TO TAME FOR YEAGER. HE FOUND A TWO MAN BOBSLED AND OFF THEY WENT. YEAGER AS THE DRIVER AND ENGLE THE BRAKEMAN(YEAGER TOLD ENGLE NOT TO TOUCH THE BRAKE). AS THE SLED WENT FASTER, YEAGER LOST CONTROL AND BOTH MEN WERE EJECTED AND SLIDDING DOWN THE COURSE. YEAGER SAID TO ENGLE "HURRY UP, JOE, YOU'RE RUINING MY TIME".
THERE IS A HANDWRITTEN INSCRIPTION NEXT TO YEAGER'S SIGNATURE THAT READS:"I DON'T THINK THAT I HAVE HAD MORE, WANTED LESS, OR FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE." SEE PICTURES. MORE PICTURES IF NEEDED!!
INCLUDED ARE THREE PAGES OF JOE ENGLE'S ORAL HISTORY THAT TELLS THE STORY OF THEIR LAKE PLACID ADVENTURE IN HIS WORDS.