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.
By Lt. Col. Blake Hoagland, 7th Space Warning Squadron / Published April 21, 2021
BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Colo.
In 1955, with visions of better detection and warning against Soviet missiles, many of the United States’ most talented minds were asked to develop, test, and field infrared warning technologies at the speed and relevancy required to meet the emerging nuclear threat.
It was a vision as vast as the operating altitudes of the early test platforms. The project named MiDAS, for Missile Defense Alarm System, realized just four years later, would expand into one of our most important national security programs. It would also highlight the significance of testing applied to space systems.
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Virgin Galactic Announces Aerospace Systems and Engineering Leadership Appointments
February 25, 2021 GMT
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 25, 2021
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE), a vertically integrated aerospace and space travel company, today announced the appointments of Swami Iyer as its President of Aerospace Systems and Stephen Justice as its Vice President of Engineering.
As President of Aerospace Systems, Iyer will lead our extraordinary team of engineers, designers, technicians, and support teams who are building the fleet of vehicles and designing the future opportunities that underpin our business. Iyer has over twenty years of experience in commercial and highly classified aerospace, defense and cyber industries. Prior to his appointment at Virgin Galactic, Iyer was President of GKN Advanced Defense Systems. He has also managed businesses across advanced c
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