moved Tony and his older sister Nancy to southern California for the warmer climate. While Tony was a teenager, his mother remarried, to Oscar LeVier, who...
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secrecy during the night of 24–25 February, where Lockheed test pilot Tony LeVier was to do the initial testing. On 28 February 1954, the XF-104 made a...
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difficulties delayed the first flight until 3 June 1949, with Chief Test Pilot Tony LeVier at the controls. Embodying the experience gained in developing the P-80...
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the "X" in "XP" was for experimental.) Lockheed's chief test pilot, Tony LeVier, angrily characterized the accident as an unnecessary publicity stunt...
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The Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award, named in honor of test pilot Tony LeVier, was established by the Flight Test Safety Committee to pay recognition...
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Award—Outstanding accomplishment in technical management or engineering Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award—Significant achievement in flight test safety...
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The Cosmic Wind was designed and built by Lockheed's chief test pilot, Tony LeVier, and a group of Lockheed engineers. A very small single-seat racer, it...
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making it suitable for small-town airports with limited facilities. Tony LeVier piloted the first flight on June 17, 1946. Lockheed had received 500...
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of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and 2002 recipient of the Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award. He was honored by NASA with an Exceptional...
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1945, he was transferred to the engineering test piloting division by Tony LeVier, who was the new head of the department. As engineering test pilot, he...
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this was not counted as a first flight. On 4 March, Lockheed test pilot Tony LeVier flew the XF-104 for its first official flight. He was airborne for only...
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David P. Davies, chief test pilot for the UK Civil Aviation Authority Tony LeVier, chief engineering test pilot at Lockheed Corporation Chuck Yeager, first...
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rejected, the CIA's program had a much lower accident rate. Test pilot Tony LeVier trained other Lockheed pilots to fly the U-2. By September 1955 he had...
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world tour during 1972 by famed Lockheed test pilot Tony LeVier. In a demonstration by test pilots LeVier and Charles Hall, 115 crew members, employees, and...
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Henshaw Steve Hinton Skip Holm Benny Howard Amy Johnson Hubert Latham Tony LeVier Johnny Livingston Mike Mangold Paul Mantz Jim Mollison John Moisant Blanche...
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Air Force Base Pilots", together with Doug Benefieds, Chuck Sewell, Tony LeVier, and Russell O'Quinn. Cornell was born in Moorhead, Minnesota, grew up...
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March 1945, although pilot Tony LeVier escaped. Newly promoted to chief engineering test pilot to replace Burcham, LeVier bailed out when one of the engine's...
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T-33 made its first flight on 22 March 1948 with Lockheed test pilot Tony LeVier at the controls. Production at Lockheed ran from 1948 to 1959. The US...
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November 1946, powered by interim 3,000 hp R-4360-18 radials. Joe Towle and Tony LeVier flew the aircraft on a leisurely course to Muroc Air Force Base. Once...
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doors that surrounded the nose cone. According to Lockheed test pilot Tony LeVier, the F-94C was capable of supersonic flight in a steep dive with afterburner...
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Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York Dean Ivan Lamb Walter E. Lees Tony LeVier Charles Lindbergh John H. Livingston Johnny Miller Edgar Mitchell Zack...
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Award. 52nd Awards Banquet. Privately Published. September 27, 2008. Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award, Flight Test Safety Committee, retrieved 2020-02-14...
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John Glenn and Wally Schirra, and where Gentex presents the annual Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award. The corporation is also past recipient awards...
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He was also recognized as a fellow of the society and received its Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award. Tomassetti was born in 1964 in Port Chester...
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slightly, changing "les choses" ("things") for "la vie" ("life"). In 1943, Piaf had performed at a nightclub/bordello called "La Vie en Rose." Initially...
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Lacy Raymonde de Laroche Ruth Bancroft Law Bill Lear Alfred LeBlanc Léon Lemartin Tony LeVier Otto Lilienthal Charles Lindbergh Per Lindstrand Alexander...
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Harris and automotive designer Peter Brock took the stage and presented Tony Stewart, Don Schumacher, Linda Vaughn, Dario Franchitti, Augie Duesenberg...
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Hartman (1890–1978), polo player Conrad Holt (1993–), chess grandmaster Tony LeVier (1913–1998), air racer, test pilot Angel Medina (1970–), pro wrestler...
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2014 Guardians of Small Business award. Presented by NFIB. 2019 The Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award. Presented by the Society of Experimental Test...
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PBS. December 2007. Retrieved August 5, 2022. "Enshrinee: Anthony "Tony" LeVier". National Aviation Hall of Fame. Retrieved August 5, 2022. "Biographical...
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