Chuck Yeager was finally awarded a fur coat for Glennis after flying 2.4 Mach in the Bell X-1A.

When Yeager decided that he wanted to go back to flying fighters, he figured that he had better figure out when his luck would run out:
"I asked Ridley if he could calculate on his slide rule how many more flights it would take before the law of averages made it impossible for me to survive. Jack pretended to figure it out on a pad, then he began to laugh. 'According to my figures,' he said, 'Major Charles E Yeager died three years ago.'"
-Yeager

Two interesting things that I learned Chuck did were test Flying a MiG 15 and being friends with Jacqueline Cochran.