Editing Chuck Yeager (section)

=== Post-retirement and in popular culture ===
[[File:ChuckYeager.jpeg|thumb|upright|right|Brigadier General Yeager in 2000]]
On March 1, 1975, Yeager retired from the Air Force at [[Norton Air Force Base]], California.<ref name="af-retirement">{{cite web
|url=https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105165/charles-e-chuck-yeager/|title=Brigadier General Charles "Chuck" Yeager |publisher=af.mil|access-date=December 8, 2020}}</ref>

Yeager made a [[cameo appearance]] in the movie ''[[The Right Stuff (film)|The Right Stuff]]'' (1983). He played "Fred", a bartender at [[Happy Bottom Riding Club|"Pancho's Place"]], which was most appropriate, because he said, "if all the hours were ever totaled, I reckon I spent more time at her place than in a cockpit over those years".<ref>{{harvp|Yeager|Janos|1985|p=172|ps=.}}</ref> [[Sam Shepard]] portrayed Yeager in the film, which chronicles in part his famous 1947 record-breaking flight.<ref name="Canby">{{cite news|last=Canby|first=Vincent|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E05E1DC123BF932A15753C1A965948260&scp=80&sq=%22The+Right+Stuff%22&st=nyt |title=Film: 'Right Stuff', On Astronauts|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115205705/https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/21/movies/film-right-stuff-on-astronauts.html|archive-date=November 15, 2020 |newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 21, 1983|access-date=December 29, 2008}}</ref>

Yeager has been referenced several times in the shared ''[[Star Trek]]'' universe, including having a namesake fictional type of starship, a dangerous starship [[formation flying|formation]]-maneuver named after him called the "Yeager Loop" (most notably mentioned in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "[[The First Duty]]"), and appearing in archival footage within the opening title sequence for the series ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' (2001–2005). For ''Enterprise'', executive producer [[Rick Berman]] said that he envisaged the lead character, Captain [[Jonathan Archer]], as being "halfway between Chuck Yeager and [[Han Solo]]".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Spelling|first=Ian|title=The Long Trek|journal=Starlog|date=November 2001|volume=1|issue=292|pages=67–69 |url = https://archive.org/stream/starlog_magazine-292/292#page/n66/mode/1up |access-date=September 14, 2021}}</ref>

For several years in the 1980s, Yeager was connected to [[General Motors]], publicizing [[ACDelco]], the company's [[automotive parts]] division.<ref name="yeagerbio_418">{{harvp|Yeager|Janos|1985|p=418|ps=.}}</ref> In 1986, he was invited to drive the [[Chevrolet Corvette]] [[pace car]] for the [[1986 Indianapolis 500|70th running of the Indianapolis 500]]. In [[1988 Indianapolis 500|1988]], Yeager was again invited to drive the pace car, this time at the wheel of an [[Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme]]. In 1986, President Reagan appointed Yeager to the [[Rogers Commission]] that investigated the explosion of the [[Space Shuttle Challenger|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'']].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.456fis.org/CHUCK_YEAGER_BIOGRAPHY.htm|title=Brigadier General Charles E. Yeager|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724210711/http://www.456fis.org/CHUCK_YEAGER_BIOGRAPHY.htm|archive-date=July 24, 2011|publisher=The 456th Fighter Interceptor Squadron|url-status=usurped|access-date=December 8, 2010}}</ref>

During this time, Yeager also served as a technical adviser for three Electronic Arts [[flight simulator]] video games. The games include ''[[Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer]]'', ''Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer 2.0'', and ''[[Chuck Yeager's Air Combat]]''. The game manuals feature quotes and anecdotes from Yeager and were well received by players. Missions feature several of Yeager's accomplishments and let players challenge his records. ''Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer'' was Electronic Art's top-selling game for 1987.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mobygames.com/game/chuck-yeagers-advanced-flight-simulator|publisher=Moby Games|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731194151/http://www.mobygames.com/game/chuck-yeagers-advanced-flight-simulator|archive-date=July 31, 2017 |title=''Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer''|access-date=June 9, 2017}}</ref>

In 2009, Yeager participated in the documentary ''[[The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club]]'', a profile of his friend [[Pancho Barnes]]. The documentary was screened at film festivals, aired on public television in the United States, and won an [[Emmy Award]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legendofpanchobarnes.com/|title=The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club|access-date=August 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523111947/http://www.legendofpanchobarnes.com/|archive-date=May 23, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On October 14, 1997, on the 50th anniversary of his historic flight past Mach 1, he flew a new ''Glamorous Glennis III'', an [[McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle|F-15D Eagle]], past Mach 1.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rogers|first=Keith|date=October 12, 2012|title=Famous pilot Yeager re-enacting right stuff 65 years later|url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/military/famous-pilot-yeager-re-enacting-right-stuff-65-years-later/|access-date=December 8, 2020|newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal}}</ref> The chase plane for the flight was an [[General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon|F-16 Fighting Falcon]] piloted by [[Bob Hoover]], a longtime test, fighter, and [[aerobatic]] pilot who had been Yeager's wingman for the first supersonic flight.<ref>{{cite news|date=January 1998|title=Yeager's Encore|magazine=Air Force Magazine |url=https://www.airforcemag.com/PDF/MagazineArchive/Magazine%20Documents/1998/January%201998/0198yeager.pdf|access-date=December 8, 2020}}</ref> At the end of his speech to the crowd in 1997, Yeager concluded, "All that I am ... I owe to the Air Force".<ref>{{cite news|last=Pasztor|first=Andy|date=December 8, 2020|title=Chuck Yeager, Pioneer of Supersonic Flight, Dies at Age 97|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/chuck-yeager-pioneer-of-supersonic-flight-dies-at-age-97-11607404925|access-date=December 8, 2020|issn=0099-9660}}</ref> Later that month, he was the recipient of the [[Tony Jannus Award]] for his achievements.<ref>{{cite web|last=Deam|first=Jenny|date=October 1, 2005|title=Chuck Yeager is honored by Tuskegee Airman|url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1997/09/27/chuck-yeager-is-honored-by-tuskegee-airman/|access-date=December 8, 2020|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times}}</ref>

On October 14, 2012, on the 65th anniversary of breaking the sound barrier, Yeager did it again at the age of 89, flying as co-pilot in a [[McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle]] piloted by Captain David Vincent out of [[Nellis Air Force Base]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Rogers|first=Keith|url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/military/famous-pilot-yeager-re-enacting-right-stuff-65-years-later/|title=Famous pilot Yeager re-enacting right stuff 65 years later|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180910094804/https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/military/famous-pilot-yeager-re-enacting-right-stuff-65-years-later/|archive-date=September 10, 2018|newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal|date=October 12, 2012}}</ref>

In October 2016, Yeager reached international headlines when a Twitter argument he was having with an Irish teenager led to him lashing out at the British and Irish, namely calling Irish people British, and labeling all British people as "nasty" and "arrogant". No stranger to controversy in his life, this was one of Yeager's last major public faux-pas.<ref>{{cite news|last=Boult|first=Adam|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/05/british-people-are-nasty-and-arrogant-says-wwii-flying-ace-chuck/|title=WWII flying ace Chuck Yeager in extraordinary attack on 'nasty' and 'arrogant' British people|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=October 5, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://x.com/GenChuckYeager/status/783353402155610113|title=One of Yeager's Tweets defining why he considers Irish people British|website=X|date=October 4, 2016}}</ref>