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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, right, presents Victoria Yeager, the wife of the late Air Force Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager, the state flag during a memorial service for him Friday in Charleston. Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a memorial service Friday for the late Gen. Chuck Yeager in Charleston. The service was the first public event for the vice president since last weekâs siege of the U.S. Capitol.
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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, right, presents Victoria Yeager, the wife of the late Air Force Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager, the state flag during a memorial service for him Friday in Charleston.
NAVAIR Press Release | January 7, 2021
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After a 32-year career supporting the development of new technologies for the fleet, a historic Sikorsky NVH-3A Sea King helicopter assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (HX) 21 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River has flown its last mission and a program executive with a special tie to the aircraft is hoping it will soon find a new permanent home where its story can be shared.
Glenn Perryman, deputy program executive officer for Air Anti-Submarine Warfare, Assault, and Special Mission Programs, stands in front of Sikorsky NVH-3A Sea King BuNo 150614, which his father flew as commanding officer of Marine Helicopter Squadron (HMX) 1. The helicopter subsequently served Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (HX) 21 as a testbed for 32 years before making its last flight in October 2020. NAVAIR Photo
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There was no warning when Chuck Yeager indulged in a moment of sentimentality after we landed one day in 2000 at San Antonio’s Stinson Municipal Airport.
As we taxied back in a P-51 Mustang, he spoke of his late wife, Glennis, saying he didn’t think he’d ever find anyone like her again.
In the couple of years I’d known the retired brigadier general a living American legend Yeager had never said anything so personal.
Getting personal wasn’t his way. Charles Elwood Yeager, who died on Dec. 7 at 97, had a crusty exterior.
School Is Located At Edwards Air Force Base, California
The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School convenes the first-ever Space Test Fundamentals course Jan. 4, 2021. The selection board results were announced Dec. 10.
“This important milestone would not have been possible without the vision of U.S. Space Force leaders. The value of agile, disciplined test and evaluation spans all domains, which is why the Air Force Test Pilot School has developed this unique test fundamentals course for space professionals,” said Maj. Gen. Christopher Azzano, Air Force Test Center commander.
Out of 165 applicants, only 45 students were selected to fill out the three course offerings in 2021, with 15 students chosen per course.
Five women among 24 graduates of USAF test pilot school
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The five female graduates in the Class of 2020a of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School pose at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Photo courtesy of Edwards Air Force Base
Dec. 21 (UPI) Five women are among 24 graduates of the test pilot program at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., class of 2020, a record number.
The rigorous, yearlong program at the only test pilot school of the U.S. Air Force accepts about 45 pilots and engineers per year, from about 300 applicants. This year, about 20% of applicants were female, double the usual number.