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Yeager, Chuck, Bob Cardenas, Bob Hoover, Jack Russell and James Young The Quest for Mach One: A First-Person Account of Breaking the Sound Barrier New York: Penguin Studio, 1997 ISBN 0-670-87460-4 Yeager, Chuck and Leo Janos, Yeager: An Autobiography New York: Bantam, 1985 ISBN 978-0-553-25674-1
In early 1982, Yeager set a new women's speed record for the 2,000-kilometer closed course and in the fall of 1984 using the VariEze, she set the open-distance record of 2,427.1 statute miles. [5] [6] Despite having the same last name, Jeana Yeager is not related to fellow aviator and test pilot General Chuck Yeager. [7]
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 ...
All much to the chagrin of program commandant Chuck Yeager, who viewed Dwight as an unqualified annoyance foisted on him — as Yeager suggested in his own autobiography and Tom Wolfe ...
Bee Curious answers a reader’s question about a plane that was once seen alongside Interstate 80 in Sacramento.
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.
Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (born February 13, 1923) is a retired Brigadier-General in the United States Air Force and a noted test pilot. In 1947, he, at age 24, became the first pilot to travel faster than sound in level flight and ascent. His career began in World War II as a private in the U.S. Army Air Forces.
Woolery hosted a short-lived talk show, The Chuck Woolery Show, in 1991. Love Connection ended in 1994. From 1997 to 1999, Woolery hosted a revival of The Dating Game .