This is an edited transcript of an oral history interview of Ken Dyson and Robert Loschke conducted by Peter J. Westwick. Ken Dyson was an engineering test pilot for the U.S. Air Force. Robert Loschke was a control systems engineer at Lockheed from 1961 to 1998. This interview focuses on their work on the Have Blue and F-117A stealth aircraft. Ken Dyson was raised in East Texas and Louisiana. He graduated high school in Texarkana in 1956 and earned a bachelor of science degree from Texas A&M in 1960. He entered the U.S. Air Force, first as an F-100 fighter pilot and then as test pilot at Eglin AFB. In 1969 he served a combat tour flying F-4D aircraft in Vietnam. He then earned a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Alabama in 1971 and became a flight test instructor at Edwards AFB. In 1976 he became a test pilot on classified programs, including the Have Blue and Tacit Blue aircraft. After retiring from the Air Force he joined Rockwell as a test pilot on the B-1B. He retired from Rockwell in 1993. Robert Loschke was born December 20, 1937 in Okarche, Oklahoma. He received degrees in aeronautical engineering and electrical engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1961. That year he joined Lockheed as a control systems engineer, where he worked on the flight controls for the YP3, F-104G, and S3A aircraft. He was the lead engineer for the flight control systems for the Have Blue and F-117A stealth aircraft. He retired from Lockheed Martin in 1998. [Object file name], Aerospace Oral History Project, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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