Gordon Yaeger

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Gordon Yaeger piloted the Bell Rocket Belt at the 1964 New York World Fair and in the James Bond movie Thunderball. He was born on May 5, 1927. He worked for Bell Aircraft Corporation in Wheatfield, New York. He died in Buffalo Hospice in Cheektowaga aged 77 after a long illness on January 23, 2005.