AEROSPACE CEREMONY TO INCLUDE GIVEAWAY OF CEREMONIAL COINS WALK OF HONOR EVENT SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER -- Commemorative coins Commemorative coins are coins that were issued to commemorate some particular event or issue. Most world commemorative coins were issued from the 1960s onward, although there are numerous examples of commemorative coins of earlier date. will be given away at the 17th annual Aerospace Walk of Honor The Aerospace Walk of Honor in Lancaster, California, USA, is a continually-growing venue for honoring test pilots who have significantly contributed to aviation and space research and development. ceremony Saturday. The coins will bear the names of the 2006 honorees: Jacqueline Cochran, the Walk of Honor's first female inductee; Air Force Col. Mervin Leroy Evenson; John Hardy Griffith; Fred Davy Knox Jr.; and Air Force Col. Emil ``Ted'' Sturmthal. Ceremonies will begin at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. , 750 W. Lancaster Blvd. Tickets are $5 each and are available through the Performing Arts Center box office at (661) 723-5950. Cochran was a pioneer in women's aviation. She held more distance and speed records during her lifetime than any other pilot, living or dead. In 1971, she was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame The American National Aviation Hall of Fame is located at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, east Dayton, Ohio. It is open to the public. , the first living female aviator to receive such an honor. Evenson was the first military test pilot to fly the F-4C Phantom. He tested the famed SR-71 Blackbird “SR-71” redirects here. For other uses, see SR-71 (disambiguation). The Lockheed SR-71 was an advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed YF-12A and A-12 aircraft by the Lockheed Skunk Works. and, after retiring from the U.S. Air Force, was on the first flight of the B-1B bomber. He was the chief test pilot of the B-1B program and the first pilot to fly more than 1,000 hours in that aircraft. Griffith flew many early experimental airplanes. He piloted nine flights in the X-1, three flights in X-4, 16 flights in the D-558-1 and eight in the D-558-2. He was the senior experimental pilot on the F7U Cutlass The Vought F7U Cutlass (Vought V-346A Cutlass) was a United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber of the early Cold War. It was a highly unusual, semi-tailless[1] in 1951. Knox has led the flight-test effort to develop several new aircraft, serving as lead pilot for the X-31 aircraft, the Ranger 2000 jet trainer, the Boeing X-32 joint strike fighter A strike fighter is a fighter aircraft which is also capable of attacking surface targets, including ships. It differs from an attack aircraft in that the aircraft remains a capable fighter. and the F-22. He flew 120 flights in the X-31 and the first flight of the X-32. Sturmthal was B-1 Test Force Project director and piloted the first flight of the B-1A on Dec. 23, 1974. He went on to fly the B-1 on its initial six flights, taking it to supersonic speeds for the first time and conducting numerous other tests vital to the development of the aircraft. |
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