posted October 09, 2005 11:32 AM               

He was a project pilot for the SR-71 High Speed Research Program, the F-18 Active Aerolastic Wing, F-18 systems research, B-52 launch aircraft and the NASA Lear Jet. He has logged 7,800 hours in 87 types of aircraft.

That doesn't really answer your question with certainty, but may give you some ideas of where to look.

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Kind Regards

Douglas Henry

posted October 10, 2005 08:49 AM               

Doug, thanks for pointing me to his biography and aircraft assigment.
I am still searching for his other "first flights" and will keep you informed when something found.

posted November 29, 2005 04:21 AM               

Ed Schneider's first flights on five unique aircraft configurations are:

F-14 Laminar Flow Experiment -

#1 First flight with a laminar flow glove on a single wing.

#2 First flight with different laminar flow gloves on each wing. One wing glove was optimized for laminar flow 0.7 Mach, and one was optimized for laminar flow 0.9 Mach, thus the airfoil cross sections, and therefore, the lift characteristics of the wings were different.

F-18 HARV -

#3 First flight with the thrust vectoring system installed.

#4 First flight with both the thrust vectoring system and the nose strakes installed.

SR-71 LASRE-

#5 First flight with the LASRE experiment installed on SR-71A NASA 844

Karel

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