Holiday Auction Militaria and Hollywood !
Lot 291:
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Gay Edward Jones graduated from Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB in 1962. He participated in many programs, including C-130 performance, structures, stability and control. He was one of two airforce pilots on the X-21 laminar flow project. He became Chief of the V/Stol Branch and Chief pilot of the XC-142A bit wing tests. He performed drops form B-52 on the X-15, and airdrop tests on the C-130, C-141, XC-142. He was a pilot on the B-57 in Southeast Asia on night dive bombing missions. He became Director of Flight Test Operations, ASD at Wright Patterson AFB, Where he supervised approx 300 test projects. After his military service he became a boeing 707 pilot for Trans Mediterranean Airlines based in Beirut, Lebanon until the civil war there. Please note there are some rips along seam of bag
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