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The Ryan X-13 Vertijet (company designation Model 69) was an experimental tail-sitting vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) jet aircraft built by Ryan Aeronautical and flown in the United States in the 1950s. The main objective of the project was to demonstrate the ability of a pure jet to vertically take off, hover, transition to horizontal ...
Peter Frank "Pete" Girard (May 5, 1918 – February 12, 2011) was a United States Army Air Forces pilot, Chief Engineering Test Pilot for Ryan Aeronautical, and the first man to hover in a jet vertical flight. This feat was accomplished on November 24, 1953, during tests that would culminate in the development of the Ryan X-13 Vertijet.
List of X-planes. Bell X-1-2. The X-planes are a series of experimental United States aircraft and rockets, used to test and evaluate new technologies and aerodynamic concepts. They have an X designator within the US system of aircraft designations, which denotes the experimental research mission. Not all US experimental aircraft have been ...
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This list of United States Air Force aircraft designations (1919–1962) includes prototype, pre-production and operational type designations under the 1919 and 1924 United States Army Air Service aircraft designation systems, which were used by the United States Air Force and its predecessors until the introduction of the unified United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system in 1962.
Lou Everett was born on November 28, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from high school at seventeen during World War II, and wanted to fly fighter aircraft for the United States Navy. Because he was too young for the Navy Cadet program, he enlisted in the Army. Within a few months, he transferred to the United States Army Air Corps and ...
Mobilization Assistant to the Surgeon General of the United States Air Force and United States Space Force: U.S. Air Force Medical Agency (AFMED) Major General John J. Bartrum [63] U.S. Air Force: U.S. Air Force Medical Service: Air National Guard Assistant to the Surgeon General of the United States Air Force (AF/SG) U.S. Air Force Medical ...
National Museum of the US Air Force. 3 June 2015. Archived from the original on 19 July 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2021. ^ "Lockheed C-60A Lodestar". National Museum of the US Air Force. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2016. ^ "Airframe Dossier - Lockheed RB-34 Lexington, s/n AJ311 FABr, c/n 237-4449".