Edwards Air Force Base Experimental Flight Test Center

Author : Steve Pace
Publisher : Motorbooks
ISBN 13 : 9780879388690
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : George J Marrett
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 161251426X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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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 192 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.

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Total Pages : 228 pages
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Author : U. S. Military
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ISBN 13 : 9781521229200
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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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

Author : Ted Huetter
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738580777
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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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 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for more "first flights" and record flights than any other place, Edwards Air Force Base is legendary. Centered around an ancient dry lakebed in the Mojave Desert 90 miles north of Los Angeles, activity at Edwards has sharpened the cutting edge of aviation and aerospace since the 1940s. The complex is a strategic flight test, research, and development center for the U.S. Air Force, NASA, and civilian contractors. Since the 1950s, almost every U.S. military aircraft has been partially tested here. The skies above Edwards have been the scene of remarkable achievements, including Chuck Yeager's world-famous breaking of the sound barrier in 1947. The base was first established near the small town of Muroc in 1933 and became renowned for its giant runways painted onto the flat, dry lakebed. Speed and altitude records were commonplace at Edwards during the 1950s. Suborbital space flights began there in the 1960s. In the 1970s it was the primary testing site for the space shuttle program. Dramatic aerospace research continues today at Edwards, America's proving ground for the future of high tech aviation.

Author : James T. Controvich
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810850101
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Air Force and Its Antecedents written by James T. Controvich and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography lists published and printed unit histories for the United States Air Force and Its Antecedents, including Air Divisions, Wings, Groups, Squadrons, Aviation Engineers, and the Women's Army Corps.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1144 pages
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Download or read book Department of the Air Force Appropriations for 1953 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Department of the Air Force
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Major Air Commands as of December 1958 written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 892 pages
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Download or read book Flight written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Appropriations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1270 pages
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Download or read book Department of the Air Force Appropriations for 1953, Hearings ... 82d Congress, 2d Session written by United States. Congress. House. Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: