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Chuck Yeager posing with the Bell X-1 aircraft (nicknamed “Glamorous Glennis” in...
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Chuck Yeager and Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran in the F-86 she piloted in 1953 when she became the first woman...
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