Chuck Yeager blasts 'nasty, arrogant' Brits after being asked why he doesn't like them

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Yeager, now 93, was the first man to break the sound barrier when he worked as a test pilot
He said Brits were nasty to Americans 'when we were over there saving them'
And he said that on a recent visit, British people 'wanted a whole lot for nothing'
He added: 'A simple thank you will do'

By Mail Foreign Service

Published: 18:15 EST, 5 October 2016 | Updated: 17:30 EST, 6 October 2016

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US war hero Chuck Yeager is scathing in his opinions on British people

American World War Two hero Chuck Yeager has launched an extraordinary attack against Britain, saying its people are ‘nasty’ and ‘arrogant’.

The 93-year-old, who was the first man to break the sound barrier when he worked as a US test pilot, has recently taken to social media.

And judging from his first attempts he is no mood to let age mellow him.

Over the last few weeks, he’s been responding to all manner of questions posed to him on Twitter – and giving some extremely forthright answers.

One follower asked General Yeager, lionised in Tom Wolfe’s book The Right Stuff, why he appeared to have a negative attitude towards the British.

He responded: ‘Arrogant. Nasty to Americans when we were over there saving them.

‘Nasty when I visited them a few years ago - wanted a whole lot for nothing.’

War hero Chuck Yeager pictured in 1948 in the cockpit of a Bell Xs-1 aircraft

When challenged about his opinions he responded: ‘The Brits weren’t so friendly when we were fighting their war for them.’

He added: ‘A simple thank you will do.’

General Yeager shot down five fighters in a single day during the Second World War.

Later, flying the Bell X-1 aircraft, he became the first pilot to travel faster than sound, despite having broken his ribs in a riding accident the day before.

He has made millions of dollars from public speaking and his autobiography.

In 2012 General Yeager, then aged 89, recreated his record breaking feat, flying in an F-15 Eagle as it broke the sound barrier at more than 30,000 feet above California’s Mohave Desert, the same place he first broke the sound barrier in 194