She will be honored Monday, Memorial Day, by the American Airpower Museum on Long Island as part of "Operation Celestial Flight, " a national program that seeks to pay tribute to all 38 WASPs who died during the war.

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The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum features a full size replica of Yeager's plane (the real one hangs in the Smithsonian) and actual aircraft that made the region famous.

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Back in his London studio, he persuaded a friend to place a blindfold over his eyes, escort him by taxi to Heathrow, catch a flight to Madrid, lead him into the Prado museum, and position him in directly in front of Velazquez's Las Meninas.

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