Download or read book The History of the USAF Flight Test School 1 July 1951 30 June 1956 Edwards Air Force Base Edwards California written by Air Force Flight Test Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classic Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base A Career in Test and Evaluation written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique USAF publication presents a fascinating oral history of Charles "Pete" Adolph, who retired as Director of Test and Evaluation in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology) on 31 January 1994. This completed more than 30 years of federal service--almost all of it within the challenging field of test and evaluation (T&E). Pete--as he was widely known throughout the Department of Defense testing community--enjoyed a remarkable career. It began in the late 1950s, as the heroic era of flight test in the first decade of the jet age was drawing to a close. Pete then played an increasingly prominent role in the transformation of flight testing into a systematic discipline using the latest in information technology to evaluate sophisticated weapon systems. His government career culminated as a senior director at the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). There, in the Pentagon, he brought his many years of engineering and management experience in the field to bear upon the formulation of policies for the acquisition and testing of weapon systems in the post-cold-war era. The text that follows began as a series of five oral history interviews conducted in the Office of the Air Force Historian between 29 July 1993 and 15 April 1994. Ms. Pauline Tubbs of the United States Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base (AFB), Alabama, expertly transcribed these interviews from approximately eight hours of audio tape. Mr. Lawrence R. Benson, the Air Force Historian's Assistant for Field Programs (and previously the Director of Research Services at the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center), organized, revised, and edited the transcript-- adding explanatory material in brackets or footnotes as appropriate. Mr. Adolph was accompanied at most of the interviews by Mr. Douglas Nation of the 46th Test Wing at Eglin AFB, Florida, who was on a special assignment to the OSD T&E Directorate. Dr. James O. Young, Historian of the Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC), and his staff at Edwards AFB, California, helped with details on flight test. Although Mr. Adolph's responsibilities within the OSD encompassed testing of all types of systems throughout the four armed services, our interview focuses most sharply on Air Force flight testing at Edwards. This is where Pete spent the majority of his career, and where I first met him in 1980 after becoming the AFFTC Historian.Note: The images reproduced in this book are from the best available copy of the original historical document.Contents: Classic Flight Testing At Edwards * Concurrent Testing And Production: The Case Of The F-111 * The Quest For Improved Aircraft Performance: Departure And Stall/Spin Testing * User Requirements And Operational Testing * Combined Testing With Contractors * The Government's Role In Developing Technology * Evolving Challenges In Flight Testing * The Culture Of Flight Testing * Migration From Contractor To Government Test Facilities * Importance Of The Private Sector * Integration Of Test Ranges * Improving Test Systems And Instrumentation * Test And Evaluation Consolidation And The Reliance Program * Interagency Testing * Test Management Oversight * Electronic Combat Testing * Software Testing And Human Factors * Post-Cold-War Implications * Glossary
Download or read book History of the USAF Experimental Flight Test Pilot School 4 February 1951 12 October 1961 written by USAF Experimental Flight Test Pilot School and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contrails over the Mojave written by George J Marrett and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Contrails over the Mojave George Marrett takes off where Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff ended in 1963. Marrett started the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB only two weeks after the school’s commander, Col. Chuck Yeager, ejected from a Lockheed NF-104 trying to set a world altitude record. He describes life as a space cadet experiencing 15 Gs in a human centrifuge, zero-G maneuvers in a KC-135 “Vomit Comet,” and a flight to 80,000 feet in the F-104A Starfighter. After graduating from Yeager’s “Charm School,” he was assigned to the Fighter Branch of Flight Test Operations, where he flew the latest fighter aircraft and chased other test aircraft as they set world speed and altitude records. Marrett takes readers into the cockpit as he “goes vertical” in a T-38 Talon, completes high-G maneuvers in an F-4C Phantom, and conducts wet-runway landing tests in the accident-prone F-111A Aardvark. He writes about Col. “Silver Fox” Stephens setting a world speed record in the YF-12 Blackbird and Bob Gilliland testing speed stalls in the SR-71 spy plane, but he also relives stories of crashes that killed test pilot friends. He recounts dead-sticking a T-38 to a landing on Rogers Dry Lake after a twin-engine failure and conducting dangerous tail hook barrier testing in a fighter jet without a canopy. A mysterious UFO sighting in the night sky above the Mojave Desert, known as “The Edwards Encounter,” also receives Marrett’s attention. Whether the author is assessing a new aircraft’s performance or describing the experiences of test pilots as they routinely faced the possibility of death, this look at the golden age of flight testing both thrills and informs.
Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edwards Air Force Base Open House at the USAF Flight Test Center 1957 1966 written by Robert D. Archer and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The USAF Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB has long been one of the most interesting test sites in the world. This pictorial history covers all of the aircraft shown publicly between 1957 and 1966, with a chapter for each year listing all of the aircraft shown, giving the manufacturer, designation, popular name and serial number. Aircraft range from the X-1B and X-5 to the XB-70, F-111 and SR-71, including nearly all of the fighters from the F-80 through the Century series, plus the Navy types. Transports, including a few civil jets, attack aircraft, trainers, bombers, helicopters, and many unusual VTOL aircraft are also fully covered in the author's more than 600 color photographs.
Download or read book Edwards Air Force Base Experimental Flight Test Center written by Steve Pace and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En beskrivelse af US Air Force FLight Test Center og de eksperimentalflytyper, der er blevet afprøvet her.
Download or read book Edwards Flight Test Center of the U S A F written by John Dudley Ball and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic story of Edwards Air Force Base, with eight pages of official photographs.
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Download or read book Edwards Air Force Base written by Ted Huetter and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ad Inexplorata written by Air Force Flight Test Center (U.S.). History Office and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force Flight Test Center Edwards Air Force Base California written by United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command and published by . This book was released on 1954* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book USAF Formal Schools written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Washingtons Volume 7 Part 1 written by Justin Glenn and published by Savas Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the seventh volume of Dr. Justin Glenn’s comprehensive history that traces the “Presidential line” of the Washingtons. Volume one began with the immigrant John Washington, who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and became the great-grandfather of President George Washington. It continued the record of their descendants for a total of seven generations. Volume two highlighted notable members of the next eight generations, including such luminaries as General George S. Patton, the author Shelby Foote, and the actor Lee Marvin. Volume three traced the ancestry of the early Virginia members of this “Presidential Branch” back to the royalty and nobility of England and continental Europe. Volumes four, five, and six treated respectively generations eight, nine, and ten. Volume Seven presents generation eleven, comprising more than 10,000 descendants of the immigrant John Washington. Although structured in a genealogical format for the sake of clarity, this is no bare bones genealogy but a true family history with over 1,200 detailed biographical narratives. These strive to convey the greatness of the family that produced not only The Father of His Country but many others, great and humble, who struggled to build that country. Volume Seven, Part One covers the descendants of the immigrant’s children Lawrence and John Washington, Jr. Volume Seven, Part Two covers the descendants of the immigrant’s child Anne (Washington) Wright.
Download or read book USAF Formal Schools written by United States. Dept. of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Concise History of the U S Air Force written by Stephen Lee McFarland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1997 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Except in a few instances, since World War II no American soldier or sailor has been attacked by enemy air power. Conversely, no enemy soldier orsailor has acted in combat without being attacked or at least threatened by American air power. Aviators have brought the air weapon to bear against enemies while denying them the same prerogative. This is the legacy of the U.S. AirForce, purchased at great cost in both human and material resources.More often than not, aerial pioneers had to fight technological ignorance, bureaucratic opposition, public apathy, and disagreement over purpose.Every step in the evolution of air power led into new and untrodden territory, driven by humanitarian impulses; by the search for higher, faster, and farther flight; or by the conviction that the air way was the best way. Warriors have always coveted the high ground. If technology permitted them to reach it, men, women andan air force held and exploited it-from Thomas Selfridge, first among so many who gave that "last full measure of devotion"; to Women's Airforce Service Pilot Ann Baumgartner, who broke social barriers to become the first Americanwoman to pilot a jet; to Benjamin Davis, who broke racial barriers to become the first African American to command a flying group; to Chuck Yeager, a one-time non-commissioned flight officer who was the first to exceed the speed of sound; to John Levitow, who earned the Medal of Honor by throwing himself over a live flare to save his gunship crew; to John Warden, who began a revolution in air power thought and strategy that was put to spectacular use in the Gulf War.Industrialization has brought total war and air power has brought the means to overfly an enemy's defenses and attack its sources of power directly. Americans have perceived air power from the start as a more efficient means of waging war and as a symbol of the nation's commitment to technology to master challenges, minimize casualties, and defeat adversaries.
Download or read book T 38A T N 68 8153 United States Air Force Test Pilot School 412th Test Wing Edwards Air Force Base California written by United States. Air Force. Aircraft Accident Investigation Board and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
