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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