After The "Round The World" Flight
Following the flight of Voyager, Yeager and Rutan traveled around the world on a lecture tour of the project, which helped them cover the costs connected with their pioneering flight, estimated to be $250,000.
Yeager and Rutan's relationship fell apart after their historic flight. Yeager married Bill Williams, whose company marketed Microlon, an engine oil treatment. Yeager endorsed the oil additive in an advertisement which claimed that Voyager lost all oil in the rear engine over the coast of Africa but was "still purring" two hours later." Dick Rutan sued Yeager, claiming misappropriation of Voyager funds but dropped the lawsuit when he discovered that she was declaring bankruptcy and earning only $400 a month as a ranch hand.
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“Its shrill scream seems yet to linger in its throat, and the roar of the sea in its wings. There is the tyranny of Jove in its claws, and his wrath in the erectile feathers of the head and neck. It reminds me of the Argonautic expedition, and would inspire the dullest to take flight over Parnassus.”
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