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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.
The World War II fighter pilot ace, who became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound in 1947, has died.
The third NF-104A (USAF 56-0762) was delivered to the USAF on 1 November 1963, and was destroyed in a crash while being piloted by Chuck Yeager on 10 December 1963. This accident was depicted in the book Yeager: An Autobiography, and the book and film adaptation of The Right Stuff. The aircraft used for filming was a standard F-104G flying with ...
Despite this longstanding aversion to flying, Shepard allowed Chuck Yeager to take him up in a jet in 1982 in preparation for playing the pilot in the film The Right Stuff. [47] [48] Shepard cited his fear of flying as a source for a character in his 1966 play Icarus's Mother. [49] His character went through an airliner crash in the film Voyager.
A replica of Gen. Chuck Yeager’s P-51 Mustang WWII-era fighter plane, marked with Nazi flags indicating the number of planes shot down by Yeager, waits in 1999 to be lifted by crane atop a 46 ...
Jeana Lee Yeager (born May 18, 1952) is an American aviator. She co-piloted, along with Dick Rutan , the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in the Rutan Voyager aircraft from December 14 to 23, 1986. [ 3 ]
Cochran standing on the wing of her F-86 talking to Yeager and Canadair's chief test pilot Bill Longhurst [19] Cochran died on August 9, 1980, at the home in Indio, California, she had shared with her husband until his death four years earlier. She was a long-time resident of the Coachella Valley and is buried in Coachella Valley Public Cemetery.
When's the last time you checked your collection of VHS tapes? You may not realize it, but those outdated tapes you probably have stored in your attic or storage unit could potentially be worth ...