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Yeager stands in front of the Bell X-1 named Glamorous Glennis. He named all of his assigned aircraft in some variation after his wife. Yeager is in the Bell X-1 cockpit. Such was the difficulty, that the answers to many of the inherent challenges were like "Yeager better have paid-up insurance". [35]
Jäger (also Jager, Jaeger, or Jæger; German pronunciation: [ˈjɛːɡɐ]) is a common German surname. It comes from the German word for " hunter ". Related surnames in other languages include De Jager , Jääger , Jágr , Yaeger and Yeager .
In English Jäger is often written as jaeger (both pl. and sgl., which is the alternative German spelling without umlaut) or anglicised as jager (pl. jagers) to avoid the umlaut completely, or rendered phonetically as yeager.
X-1A #9: December 8, 1953 Chuck Yeager 48-1384 USAF 3 1.9 18,300 First high-mach flight. Achieved mach 1.9 during slight climb. X-1A #10: December 12, 1953
If Yeager was a superb "intuitive engineer," able to identify the cause of any unexpected event in the air, Ridley was equally gifted in his computational and reasoning abilities. Indeed, Yeager often called him "the brains behind the whole X-1 test program." All three team members meshed well together.
Yeager is a mostly American surname, a phonetic transcription of the common German surname Jaeger (Jäger), meaning hunter. [1]Notable people with the surname include: Albert F. Yeager, (1892-1961) American horticulturalist
Jäger, Jager, or Jaeger (German pronunciation: [ˈjɛːɡɐ]), meaning "hunter" in German, may refer to: Jäger (surname) , also Jaeger and Jæger, including a list of people and fictional characters with the surname
Stephan Patrick Jäger (/ ˈ s t iː v ən ˈ j eɪ ɡ ər / STEEV-ən YAY-gər; [4] born 30 May 1989), also spelled as Stephan Jaeger, is a German professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He has won six tournaments on the second tier Korn Ferry Tour in the United States.