Posted 7 years ago
ChuyLui
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Driving for the fastest pilot on Earth!!
My name is Jesus "Chuy" Lui Liogon I live in the state of Sonora, Mexico in a town in the middle of a big agricultural valley called Valle del Yaqui where lots of doves feed and nest year round and because of this special situation is how I got the opportunity to meet who was considered at the time the fastest man alive and one of the bravest too!!
Back in the year 2001 I was working as a driver-guide in a duck and dove hunting local company.
One day my boss told me I had to go to the local airport to pick up a small group of dove hunters I got the name of the person who had booked the hunt and also I knew they were flying a private jet plane, just another day at the office for me I thought to my self!! How could I know I was about to meet Charles Elwood Yeager, that's how his passport showed.
It was late that 2001 February afternoon when the private jet landed and I approached the immigration officers to help the hunters with the paperwork at this time one the hunters asked me if I was Chuy I said yes and that's when this gentleman,who was a retired Colonel himself told me who the other hunters were, General Brigadier Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager,WWII ace pilot Bud Anderson and another hunter and the owner of the Plane whose last name was Mr. Lewis, the immigration paperwork went smoothly so we got in to the van and drove in to the city of Obregon were the lodge was located next morning we had a light breakfast and took off to the nearby mountains where we were hunting at the time for white winged doves in some small ranches with some sorghum crops, we drove about an hour it was about 6 am when I started installing each hunter in a previously marked spots about an hour later I made my first round to check on the hunters and see if they were having plenty of doves to shoot at and I noticed the doves where just avoiding the spot where General Yeager was hunting so I drove my van close to where he was and I said to him" General I think the doves are avoiding you because you are wearing an orange colored RUGGS RANCH HUNTING cap" He looked at me and very calmly but firm, do you really think they can see my hat?? And I said: yes General I really think so and I said: General you can use my camo cap and see what happens and he said: ok and he handed me his cap and grabbed mine, well his hunting improved during that day later that night when we arrived at the lodge he said to me: please give me back my hat!!
They hunted with me for two more days, General always rode on the passenger seat next to me, so we talked for a few times on our daily driving to the fields!!!
Without a doubt the most memorable experience of my life!!
The day they were leaving our lodge General handed us pictures and signed them to us!!
But right before he got into my van General Chuck Yeager took his orange hat off signed and gave it to ME!! He smiled and said: thank you Chuy! A man of few words!!!
A few days later later I received by mail a photograph of colonel Bud Anderson signed also a very quiet man even though he was a war hero also!!
Story by Jesus "Chuy" Lui Liogon
Great story! Cool hat and photo. Thanks for sharing :)
Thank you sir