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Topic: Robert Cardenas, test pilot (1920-2022)
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ColinBurgess Member Posts: 2123 From: Sydney, Australia Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 03-11-2022 06:22 AM
Brigadier General Robert Cardenas has died on his 102nd birthday, 10 March 2022. A legendary airman and test pilot, he also flew the B-29 that launched Chuck Yeager aboard the X-1 "Glamorous Glennis." From his U.S Air Force biography: From June 1947 to July 1949 he was an experimental test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He was twice awarded oak leaf clusters to the Air Medal for experimental flight tests at Edwards Air Force Base.General Cardenas aided in pioneering jet aircraft development, test flying the P-59 and XB-45, the Air Force's first jet fighter and bomber. He flew the B-29 launch aircraft that released the X-1 experimental rocket plane in which Charles E. Yeager, a captain at the time, became the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound. |
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One of the nicest gentlemen ever. |
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posted 04-01-2022 10:22 PM
I wrote to Gen. Cardenas roughly a dozen years ago to get some photos signed by him. He sent back more than I sent to him. Here's one of the extras. |