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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.
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.
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 ...
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 cameo appearance by the real Chuck Yeager in the film was a particular "treat", which Osborne cited. The recounting of many of the legendary aspects of Yeager's life was left in place, including the naming of the X-1, "Glamorous Glennis" after his wife and his superstitious preflight ritual of asking for a stick of Beemans chewing gum from ...
Chuck Woolery, who made his mark on the world of television as a major game show host, died on Nov. 23 at the age of 83. The sad news was confirmed by Mark Young , a close friend of Woolery's who ...
Glennis Grace (born 1978), Dutch singer; Glennis Lorimer (1913–1968), British actress; 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
For the record: 5:28 p.m. Oct. 23, 2023: An earlier version of this article referred to Charles Young’s wife, Judy Young, as Judy Cornell.. Charles E. Young, the fiery, fiercely outspoken ...