FLIGHT TEST COMMANDER NOMINATED FOR PROMOTION.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Brig Brig, town, Switzerland Brig (brēk), Fr. Brigue, town, Valais canton, S Switzerland, on the Rhône River, at the north entrance of the Simplon Tunnel. . Gen. Richard Reynolds, commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center, has been nominated by President Clinton for promotion to major general, officials announced Tuesday. Reynolds' promotion will have to be ratified by the Senate, which has yet to schedule a date for that vote, said Edwards spokeswoman Lt. Col. Vicki Stein. Reynolds assumed command of the flight test center in July, succeeding Maj. Gen. Richard Engel Richard Engel is NBC News' Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Prior to joining NBC News in May 2003, he covered the start of the 2003 war in Iraq from Baghdad for ABC News as a freelance journalist. . Reynolds' career includes five years at Edwards in the 1980s, flying and serving as operations officer for the B-1 bomber test program. Then a major, he survived the Aug. 29, 1984, B-1A bomber crash that killed Rockwell test pilot Doug Benefield. A 1971 Air Force Academy graduate and former B-52 bomber pilot, Reynolds commanded the 4952 Test Squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 8,023 acres (3,247 hectares), W Ohio, NE of Dayton; est. 1917. One of the largest airport installations in the world, it is the air force's main research and development base, and the headquarters of the in Ohio, and served as program director for several aircraft programs, most recently the B-2 stealth bomber. Reynolds' previous assignment was at the Pentagon, serving as program executive officer for airlift and trainer aircraft. The commander oversees what is the Antelope Valley's largest center of employment, with about 14,000 workers. The base is about to embark on a surge of flight test activity, including expanded flight testing of the X-33, the F-22 Raptor “F-22” redirects here. For other uses, see F-22 (disambiguation). The F-22 Raptor is a fifth-generation American fighter aircraft that utilizes fourth-generation stealth technology. and the 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. . |
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