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Twenty-three years ago this week, the Northrop YF-23 Advanced Tactical Fighter took to the air for the first time. Veteran test pilot Paul Metz was at the controls of the revolutionary single seat, twin engine air superiority fighter aircraft. The Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) was intended as a next-generation replacement… Read More
Thirty-six years ago this month, the Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise successfully completed the first free flight of the Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) Program. NASA Astronauts Fred W. Haise, Jr. and Charles G. “Gordon” Fullerton were at the controls of the pathfinder orbiter vehicle (OV-101). Developers of the Space Shuttle… Read More
Aerosciences instructor and CEO J. Terry White just taught two back-to-back classes to the brilliant men and women of the Air Force Test Center (AFTC) at Edwards Air Force Base, CA. This marks the tenth course Mr. White has had the pleasure of teaching at Edwards AFB, where he once worked as an Aerodynamics… Read More
Forty-eight years ago this month, NASA astronauts Leroy Gordon Cooper and Charles M. “Pete” Conrad set a new spaceflight endurance record during the flight of Gemini 5. It was the third of ten (10) missions in the historic Gemini spaceflight series. The motto for the mission was “Eight Days or Bust”. The… Read More
Fifty years ago this month, NASA chief research pilot Joseph A. Walker flew X-15 Ship No. 3 (S/N 56-6672) to an altitude of 354,200 feet. This flight would mark the highest altitude ever achieved by the famed hypersonic research vehicle. The date was Thursday, 22 August 1963. Carried aloft by NASA’s NB-52A (S/N… Read More
J. Terry White just returned to Arnold Air Force Base, TN to teach the fine professionals at Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC). The flight simulation test facilities at AEDC operate 58 aerodynamic and propulsion wind tunnels, rocket and turbine engine test cells, space environmental chambers, arc heaters, ballistic ranges and other specialized units.… Read More
Forty-nine years ago this month, the United States abandoned a 7-year effort to develop a nuclear-armed, supersonic cruise missile. The joint USAF-AEC program was known as Project Pluto. The centerpiece of this program was the nuclear-fueled, ramjet-powered Supersonic Low-Altitude Missile (SLAM). The 1950′s saw the development of myriad aircraft, missile… Read More
Forty-four years ago this month, the United States of America landed two men on the surface of the Moon. The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle landed in Sea of Tranquility region of the Moon on Sunday, 20 July 1969 at 20:17:40 UTC. Less than seven hours later, astronauts Neil A.… Read More
Fifty-seven years ago this week, the triple-staged USAF/Lockheed X-17 successfully flew its first aerodynamic heating research mission. The hemispheric reentry test article achieved a peak Mach number of 12.84 during the high temperature flight experiment. In the early 1950’s, the United States began developing its first stable of Intercontinental Ballistic… Read More
Fifty-one years ago this week, the United States successfully orbited the world’s first active-repeater communications satellite. Known as Telstar 1, the satellite successfully relayed through space the first television pictures, telephone calls, fax images and provided the first live transatlantic television transmission. Telstar was a development of the Bell Telephone… Read More
