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Happy Birthday General Chuck Yeager
We salute General Chuck Yeager (February 13, 1923 – December 7, 2020), a true American hero, on what would have been his 100th birthday. Among his many achievements, on October 14, 1947, while piloting the experimental Bell X-1, General Yeager became the first to fly faster than the speed of sound. That evening Yeager and his X-1 team celebrated this… [Read More]
NEW FLIGHT TEST MUSEUM IS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CALIFORNIA
The current US Air Force Flight Test Museum is located behind the gates at Edwards Air Force Base. Because the Museum is currently located behind the gates on a top security air base, access is often not possible for non-military personnel. To make the museum fully accessible to the public, it is currently being rebuilt and relocated to just… [Read More]
101 Chuck YEAGER-isms: Wit & Wisdom from America’s Hero
Pancho Says: “Please buy the new book just published by General Chuck Yeager’s favorite wingman, Victoria Yeager: “101 Chuck Yeager-isms: Wit & Wisdom from America’s Hero.” Click the link here to review and purchase:
American hero, Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager has died. He was 97.
We are saddened to learn that Pancho’s pal, Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager passed away on Monday December 7, 2020. His wife, Victoria Yeager, announced on her husband’s Twitter account: “It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET. An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest Pilot, & a… [Read More]
George Hurrell at the Walt Disney Family Museum, 2015
Pancho Barnes met George Hurrell shortly after his 1925 arrival in the California beachside community of Laguna Beach. Pancho and George became fast friends, a friendship that lasted Pancho’s entire lifetime. Pancho was responsible for getting George his first Hollywood celebrity client when she introduced him to her best friend at the time, actor Ramon Novarro. An exhibition of the… [Read More]
Pancho Barnes Film on PBS stations across America
Check you local station listing across America. The new documentary, “The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club” is being shown all over the country. We have heard from folks in Iowa, South Dakota, Illinois and Massachusetts! Can’t say went it may be on your local station but keep looking if you haven seen it, or better… [Read More]
Pancho Film ENCORES on TV Tonight on KOCE
For the second time, “The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club,” the outstanding, award-winning* documentary makes an ENCORE on KOCE-TV PBS station in the greater Los Angeles/Orange County area tongiht, Sunday, April 25th at 11:00PM. The ‘buzz’ the film has generated is substantial, as over 100 PBS/American Public Television stations around the country are preparing to… [Read More]