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Yeager named his plane after his wife, Glennis, as a good-luck charm: "You're my good-luck charm, hon. Any airplane I name after you always brings me home." [ 119 ] Yeager and Glennis moved to Grass Valley, California , after his retirement from the Air Force in 1975.
Some of the "women roles" that followed The Stunt Man included the horror movie The Entity (1982); Philip Kaufman's The Right Stuff (1983), in which she played Glennis Yeager, wife of test pilot Chuck Yeager; and The Natural (1984), in which she shot Robert Redford's character, inspired by a real-life incident where Ruth Ann Steinhagen shot ...
Glennis Yeager (1924–1990), wife of Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager, who named several of his planes Glamorous Glennis for her, including the supersonic Bell X-1; Carl Glennis Roberts (1886–1950), American surgeon, civil rights activist; It is also spelt Glennys and may refer to: Glennys Farrar, American particle physicist and cosmologist
Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager piloted USAF aircraft #46-062, nicknamed Glamorous Glennis for his wife. The airplane was drop launched from the bomb bay of a B-29 and reached Mach 1.06 (700 miles per hour (1,100 km/h; 610 kn)). [1] Following burnout of the engine, the plane glided to a landing on the dry lake bed.
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 ...
The wife of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy raised their 11 children after he was assassinated and remained dedicated to social causes and the family’s legacy for decades thereafter. Oct. 10.
Yeager hit two grand slams in a single game while playing for Meadowdale. He is the cousin of the late test pilot Chuck Yeager. [2] Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley was the best man at his wedding to local rock musician Gloria Giaone. [1] Yeager is Jewish, having converted to Judaism when his career was over. [3] He later moved to Granada Hills ...
"The Brutalist," starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, and Guy Pearce, is 3 hours and 35 minutes.. Over the last few years, blockbusters have become longer and longer. Three-hour movies are ...