Hangar Flying

[Bill Glaze]

Ron:
Seen the equipment (track, propellant tanks, etc.) on top of Hurricane Mesa
near St. George, UT, many times from the air.  It's still there.
I agree about Col. Stapp.  He made the cover of Time Magazine (rightfully so)
for so advancing the cause of aviation.
Bill Glaze

Ron Van Putte wrote:

> Bill Glaze wrote:
> > Yep.  A friend of mine on the airline (retired Lt. Colonel) flew the
> > SR-71 operationally.  He's a very quiet guy!
>
> This is off-topic too and I apologize in advance.  I was a Captain back
> in the mid 1960's and was walking down a corridor in a building at
> Wright-Patterson AFB, OH when the meekest looking Colonel I'd ever seen
> approached in the opposite direction.  I whispered to the officer I was
> with something like,  "Man, that's the most mousy Colonel I've ever
> seen!".  He replied, "Oh, that's John Stapp".  For the uninitiated,
> Colonel John Stapp routinely strapped himself in a rocket sled and went
> blasting off down the track at speeds of up to the speed of sound to
> test the effects of wind on the bodies of pilots ejecting at these speeds!
>
> Ron Van Putte
>
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