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Sentinel Chicken · 04-01-2002, 05:22 PM

This is a pic from the USAF Archives of his later mount, a P-51D when he flew with the 357th Fighter Group. This was the same unit as Bud Anderson, who flew the famous P-51D "Old Crow". The 357th produced 42 aces in WWII. Yeager had 2 P-51Ds named "Glamorous Glen", both with a I or II suffix.

I'll have to look and see if he mentions this in his autobiography, but I'm guessing he changed from "Glamorous Glen" to "Glamorous Glennis" as a matter of pilot's superstition.

04-01-2002, 05:22 PM	#10
Sentinel Chicken Go-Getters Go Ozark Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: DFW/THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS Posts: 4,167	This is a pic from the USAF Archives of his later mount, a P-51D when he flew with the 357th Fighter Group. This was the same unit as Bud Anderson, who flew the famous P-51D "Old Crow". The 357th produced 42 aces in WWII. Yeager had 2 P-51Ds named "Glamorous Glen", both with a I or II suffix. I'll have to look and see if he mentions this in his autobiography, but I'm guessing he changed from "Glamorous Glen" to "Glamorous Glennis" as a matter of pilot's superstition. __________________ *Piss on noise abatement!*