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3 de ene. de 1991 · Jan. 3, 1991 12 AM PT. <i> Times Staff and Wire Reports</i> Glennis Yeager, the “Glamorous Glennis” whose name adorns the airplane in which her husband became the first man to fly faster than the...
8 de dic. de 2020 · On 14 October 1947, Yeager's plane - nicknamed Glamorous Glennis, in honour of his first wife - was dropped from the bomb bay of a B-29 aircraft above the Mojave Desert in the...
3 de ene. de 1991 · Glennis Yeager, whose name graced the rocket plane in which her test pilot husband broke the sound barrier 43 years ago, died after a six-year battle with ovarian cancer, officials said.
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7 de dic. de 2020 · US Air Force officer and test pilot Chuck Yeager, known as “the fastest man alive,” has died at the age of 97. Yeager broke the sound barrier when he tested the X-1 in October 1947, although the...
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Yeager and Glennis moved to Grass Valley, California, after his retirement from the Air Force in 1975. The couple prospered as a result of Yeager's best-selling autobiography, speaking engagements, and commercial ventures. Glennis Yeager died of ovarian cancer in 1990. They had four children (Susan, Don, Mickey, and Sharon).
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- Brigadier general (promoted 1969)
- 1941–1947 (Army Air Forces), 1947–1975 (Air Force)
How did she die? In 1990, Glennis died aged 66 after two bouts with ovarian cancer. She had been married to Chuck for 45 years. In his autobiography, Chuck writes: “When Glennis got sick, friends said to me: ‘If anyone can beat cancer, she’s the one.’. That’s exactly right.
9 de dic. de 2020 · Yeager nicknamed the rocket plane, and all his other aircraft, "Glamorous Glennis" for his wife, who died in 1990. Yeager's feat was kept top secret for about a year when the world thought the ...
