Nov 1, 2019
Celebrating 75 years United States Air Force Test Pilot School. Just 60 years ago TPS class 59-C officers pose near a North American F-86 Sabre jet. Note future NASA astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White, backrow 3rd & 4th from left, who would both fly on Gemini IV in 1965. From 1961 onwards the school added the Aerospace Research Pilot Course, whin spun off at least 25 future astronauts. 40 years ago, Tom wolfe wrote “The Right Stuff” about test pilots engaged in U.S. postwar experimental high-speed rocket-powered aircraft testing, pushing the envelope... (Photo: USAF Academy/NASA)
