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bisiauxt
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posted 03-21-2012 11:07 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for bisiauxt   Click Here to Email bisiauxt     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I continue to read and learn about X-planes and others and I am fascinated. I have some questions concerning flight logs:
  • How many flights did Fred Ascani fly in the X-4 (if he did fly the X-4)? It must have been a flight between August and September 1950 with the second plane (46-677), the first was definitively grounded at this time.

  • In the appendix of "On the Frontier" there are dashes ("-") in the pilot column concerning the X-5 flights: 15, 111 to 114, 128, 130 to 132. What does that mean?

  • The second X-5 was never in hand of NACA (50-1839). I have red that the number of its flights is not well know. However do you know who piloted the 50-1839? I have found:
    • Skip Ziegler for Bell
    • Chuck Yeager for USAF
    • Fred Ascani for USAF (not sure?)
    • Raymond Popson USAF (it was his first flight with X-5 and died with crash of 50-1839 on Oct. 14, 1953)

  • I am looking for a flight log for the F-111 TACT. Or at least who have been pilot of the F-111 TACT.

hoorenz
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posted 03-21-2012 11:11 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for hoorenz   Click Here to Email hoorenz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Dick Scobee was a pilot for the TACT.

machbusterman
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posted 03-22-2012 04:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for machbusterman   Click Here to Email machbusterman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Fred Ascani flew the X-4 once. It was a pilot familiarisation flight. The date was September 28th, 1950. Also flying the X-4 that day on "famil" flights were:
  • John Griffith (NACA)
  • Arthur "Kit" Murray
  • Jackie Ridley
  • Gus Askounis
The sad thing is all of these men are no longer with us (including General Ascani who passed away two years ago this coming March 28; can't believe its two years already since his passing).

Ascani definitely flew the X-5, he told me so. I believe it was the second bird (no flight logs for this bird have been found).

Hope this helps.

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