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Topic: Need help ID'ing pilots in photo
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mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 11-16-2005 12:37 PM
   
Can anyone with a sharp eye ID the pilots in this photo? It's a great picture and I'd like to know who everyone is.Thanks!  |
Michael Davis
Member Posts: 528
From: Houston, Texas
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 11-16-2005 01:02 PM
From the Dryden Research Center website:"Not every moment of a test pilot's day is serious business. In a moment of levity, NASA pilots Bill Dana (left) and John A. Manke try to drag Air Force test pilot Peter Hoag away from the HL-10 lifting body while Air Force Major Jerauld R. Gentry helps from the cockpit. These four men were the principal pilots for the HL-10 program." Michael
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mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 11-16-2005 01:19 PM
I couldn't tell if they were trying to drag him away...or whether they trying to heave him into the cockpit!Thanks for the information, by the way!
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micropooz
Member Posts: 1512
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 11-16-2005 04:11 PM
Hehehe. If this had been the M2-F2, you could easily speculate that they were trying to throw him into the cockpit. Not a popular plane to fly... |
Michael Davis
Member Posts: 528
From: Houston, Texas
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 11-16-2005 04:19 PM
Actually, I thought the same thing (until I found the "official" description). Was this the same lifting wing from the opening sequence of "The Six Million dollar Man"? A few tumbles like that and it would be difficult to get pilots to line up for a shot at flying it. |
thump
Member Posts: 575
From: washington dc usa
Registered: May 2004
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posted 11-16-2005 04:53 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Michael Davis:
Actually, I thought the same thing (until I found the "official" description). Was this the same lifting wing from the opening sequence of "The Six Million dollar Man"? A few tumbles like that and it would be difficult to get pilots to line up for a shot at flying it.
M2-F2 was the vehicle seen crashing in the opening scene. Bruce Peterson was the pilot of that actual crash. After the crash, an additional dorsal fin was added, making it the M2-F3, which is currently hanging in the NASM in Wash. DC. |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 11-16-2005 05:29 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Michael Davis:
Actually, I thought the same thing (until I found the "official" description).
Perhaps the pilots were pretending to force a reluctant Hoag into the cockpit, but then the person who wrote up the "official" description (in an effort to put a nice spin to it) made it sound like they had to drag him away from the plane...because it was just so darn fun to fly!  |
heng44
Member Posts: 3386
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 11-17-2005 04:31 AM
I remember a caption that states that Gentry (in the cockpit) is using the hammer "to repel boarders". I believe it was in a DFRC publications years ago...Ed |
machbusterman
Member Posts: 1778
From: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Registered: May 2004
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posted 11-17-2005 02:00 PM
It should also be noted that Peter Hoag flew the HL-10 on Feb 18, 1970 to a maximum speed of Mach 1.86/1228mph which became the fastest flight of all the lifting body programs (and also made the final flight of the HL-10 program on July 17th, 1970.  Rgds, Derek |
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