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    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...
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  • football player and coach Jeana Yeager (born 1952), American aviator Joe Yeager (1875–1937), American baseball player Justin Yeager (born 1998), American...
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    world without stopping or refueling. It was piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager. The flight took off from Edwards Air Force Base's 15,000 foot (4,600...
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    the first non-stop, non-refueled around-the-world flight with co-pilot Jeana Yeager. He was the older brother of famed aerospace designer Burt Rutan, whose...
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    "After puking all over myself I said, 'Yeager, you made a big mistake'". Chuck Yeager is not related to Jeana Yeager, one of the two pilots of the Rutan...
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    over a closed course, Rutan Voyager N269VA, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, Vandenberg, California to Mojave, 18,658.16 km, July 15, 1986. Group...
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  • actress, and model Jeana Ross, American politician from Alabama Jeana Varnell, survivor of American Airlines Flight 1420 Jeana Yeager (born 1952), American...
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    Bahamasair. December: Jeana Yeager First non-stop, un-refueled flight around the Earth: was made by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager in the Rutan Voyager over...
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    and the distance is measured over verifiable waypoints. Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager had already flown the Voyager around the world in 1986, so a longer closed...
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    14–23, 1986 Edwards Air Force Base, US, circumnavigation Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager Rutan Voyager 04:21:51:00 June 28 to July 3, 2015 Nagoya, Japan – Kalaeloa...
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    non-stop, un-refueled flight around the Earth: was made by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager in the Rutan Voyager over 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds, running from...
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    without refueling around the world. Piloted by Rutan's brother Dick and Jeana Yeager the airplane made the round the world flight over 9 days in December...
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  • pitcher for the Atlanta Braves Hurley Tarver (born 1975), football player Jeana Yeager (born 1952), broke distance records during her (and Dick Rutan's) 1986...
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  • Island, San Francisco to LaGuardia Field. Rutan Voyager, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds 14 December 1986 23 December 1986 first...
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    Harris Wofford 2012 Robert L. Woodson, Sr. 2008 Patrisha Wright 2001 Joseph R. Wright, Jr. 1989 Sidney R. Yates 1993 Jeana Yeager 1986 Tony Zale 1990...
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    the first woman to fly solo around the world. In 1986, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager made the first non-refueled circumnavigation in an airplane (Rutan Voyager)...
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    Citation X Bizjets". Aero news network. March 13, 2007. "Dick Rutan, Jeana Yeager, and the Flight of the Voyager". U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission...
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    P78-1 (or Solwind) satellite and destroyed it. In 1986, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager launched from Edwards to set a new aviation record by piloting the first...
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    GlobalFlyer. All three records were previously held by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager from their flight in the Voyager in 1986. Fossett contributed the GlobalFlyer...
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    paraplegic pilot in a Comanche 260 with hand controls. Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, 1986, Voyager, first non-stop non-refueled circumnavigation in an airplane...
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    outstanding safety record of the Cessna Citation aircraft. 1986 - Dick Rutan, Jeana Yeager, Burt Rutan and the team of the first non-stop unrefueled circumnavigation...
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  • around-the-world non-stop, non-refueled flight of the Voyager aircraft Jeana Yeager, Voyager Aircraft, Inc. 1988 Channing S. Morse, McDonnell Douglas NOTAR...
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  • 1952 – George Strait, American singer, guitarist and producer 1952 – Jeana Yeager, American pilot 1953 – Alan Kupperberg, American author and illustrator...
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  • Nancy-Bird Walton Jessie E. Woods Edna Gardner Whyte (president 1955–1957) Jeana Yeager Charter member Margaret Thomas "Tommy" Warren believes she might have...
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    financial resources. One person selected to fly in the rocket was engineer Jeana Yeager, who worked for Truax Engineering. Peruvian-born Daniel J. Correa was...
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    aircraft design and manufacturing techniques. In 1986, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew an aircraft, the Rutan Voyager, around the world unrefuelled, and...
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  • Williams Orville and Wilbur Wright W.A. Yackey Lewis Yancey Chuck Yeager Jeana Yeager John Young Bernard Ziegler Asli Hassan Abade Muhammad Mahmood Alam...
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    among others, the A-5C Attacker (Fantan) and FT-7. Richard Rutan and Jeana Yeager, who flew a Voyager non-stop around the world without refueling, were...
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  • of the 111 people on board. 1986 – Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft...
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    her youth. She was always interested in becoming a pilot when she met Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan at the age of three after one of their last test flights...
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