31 United States Air Force Test Pilot School students from the 412th Test Wing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, visited Barksdale to study the B-52H Stratofortress.
The USAF TPS is where the Air Force s top pilots, navigators and engineers learn how to conduct flight tests and generate the data needed to carry out test missions.
By integrating with Team Barksdale, the USAF TPS connected the operations community with the test community, as well as gave its students an opportunity to prove their test skills through a capstone course designed around different airframes.
“This experience gives the students a perspective of what the pilots have to deal with when they re flying this aircraft so that when they re developing tests for the bomber community, they know what kind of things they are asking the pilots to do,” said Col. Sebrina L. Pabon, USAF TPS commandant.