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Title
Terror sparks test pilot's hours
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Woods, Jon
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1961
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph caption dated July 10, 1961 reads, "Terror sparks test pilot's hours - Today's test pilots don't wear red scarfs, rush from hangers, zoom off to dare devil a new experimental plane. 'That is Hollywood,' says Maj. Jones P. Seigler, assistant commandant, Flight Test School at Edwards Air Force Base, near Lancaster. Yet pilots attending the school get their share of flying. Top photo shows Capt. Frank Borman zipping over the desert up side down. Later, he goes over his performance antics on an instrument panel mockup to find what he did right - and wrong. With him, lower left, is Lt. Pete Odgers, another student, seated before the panel. Seigler, next photo, says he's training men to test a product 'in the biggest wind tunnel in the world - the atmosphere.'"; See images #00126015 through #00126017 for all photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00126016
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d031_f3_i16
CARL0005428317
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/57548
Subject
United States.--Air Force--Officers
United States.--Air Force--Uniforms
Men--California--Edwards Air Force Base
Test pilots--California--Edwards Air Force Base
Flight schools--California--Edwards Air Force Base
Mugs--California--Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period
1961-1970

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