Jeana yeager biography of michael

          Yeager, who is unrelated to military pilot Chuck, studied drafting in high school, then earned her pilot's license at She met Burt and Dick Rutan at a.

        1. Yeager, who is unrelated to military pilot Chuck, studied drafting in high school, then earned her pilot's license at She met Burt and Dick Rutan at a.
        2. He received a bachelor's degree in English and history from Harvard University in and a master's degree in comparative literature from Columbia University.
        3. Jeana Yeager (born ) became the first woman to fly an airplane nonstop around the world without refueling.
        4. Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October became the.
        5. "On December 14, , Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan took off from Edwards Air Force Base, in California's Mojave Desert, on their history-making flight--the.

          6. Jeana Yeager (born ) became the first woman to fly an airplane nonstop around the world without refueling....

          Jeana Yeager

          American aviator (b. 1952)

          Jeana Lee Yeager (born May 18, 1952) is an American aviator.

          She co-piloted, along with Dick Rutan, the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in the Rutan Voyager aircraft from December 14 to 23, 1986.[3] The flight took 9 days, 3 minutes, and 44 seconds and covered 24,986 miles (40,211 km), almost doubling the old distance record set by a Boeing B-52strategic bomber in 1962.

          Early life and career

          Jeana Lee Yeager was born on May 18, 1952, in Fort Worth, Texas, to Royal Leland "Lee" Yeager (March 12, 1918 - March 17, 2001) and Alice Evaree Snider (née Harris; October 21, 1924 – February 5, 2013).

          As a child, she and her family variously lived in Garland, Texas, Oxnard, California, and Commerce, Texas.[4] Following graduation from high school, Yeager, at age 19, married a police officer; they divorced five years later.[1] She then worked as a draftsman and surveyor for a geothermal en