Deke Slayton's 1959 Air Force assignment

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Author	Topic: Deke Slayton's 1959 Air Force assignment
kr4mula Member Posts: 642 From: Cinci, OH Registered: Mar 2006	posted 09-07-2017 10:03 AM Does anyone know specifically which Air Force organization Deke Slayton was working for when picked for the Mercury astronaut evaluations? I can't seem to find my copy of "Deke!" I know he was test piloting out at Edwards, but not the details of what he was doing and for whom. Google results aren't specific enough for me to answer a question I got about it here at work.
kr4mula Member Posts: 642 From: Cinci, OH Registered: Mar 2006	posted 09-07-2017 11:13 AM I think I've got it. The Edwards history from the first half of 1959 shows him assigned as a "project pilot" for the F-105B until at least the end of March 1959. He's part of the AFFTC Directorate of Flight Test.
Michael Cassutt Member Posts: 358 From: Studio City CA USA Registered: Mar 2005	posted 09-07-2017 02:05 PM Yes, he was at Edwards in flight test but anticipating a PCS — he hoped to Eglin, though Mercury intervened.

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