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Topic: X Planes: Flight logs and pilot assignments
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bisiauxt
Member Posts: 43
From: La Tour de Salvagny, Rhone, France
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted March 21, 2012 11:07 AM
   
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.
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hoorenz
Member Posts: 561
From: The Netherlands
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted March 21, 2012 11:11 AM
Dick Scobee was a pilot for the TACT. |
machbusterman
Member Posts: 1617
From: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Registered: May 2004
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posted March 22, 2012 04:51 PM
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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