PILOTS PRAISED IN WALK OF HONOR BRONZE PLAQUES GO TO FIVE PIONEERING TEST FLIERS AT AVIATION FESTIVAL.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - The city's 15th 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. celebration honored five test pilots and remembered the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The test pilots' accomplishments include holding a 45-year-old speed record for single-engine aircraft, flying space shuttles The term Space Shuttles refers to partly or fully reusable launch vehicles for regularly placing payloads into low earth orbit. See:
The five bronze plaques honoring Thomas Morganfeld, Joseph Rogers, Roger Smith, Joseph Tymczyszyn and Richard Truly were unveiled during an aviation festival of displays, vendors and music by an Air Force band at Boeing Plaza, under a pedestal-mounted F-4 Phantom fighter jet. Tymczyszyn died in 1999 at age 81. The unveiling Saturday followed a moment of silence for the 9-11 victims. Visitors also signed a remembrance book for 9-11 victims and viewed renderings of the memorial to be built in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Morganfeld, a Camarillo resident, was a pioneer in Lockheed Martin's most secret projects. He helped develop the F-117 and flew the first flights of the YF-22A and the X-35A 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. . Rogers, a resident of Healdsburg in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern , piloted an F- 106 Delta Dart in 1959 to 1,525 mph, setting a speed record for single-engine aircraft that still stands. He later was test director for the 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. spy plane. In 1951, Time magazine wrote about his flying in the Korean War Korean War, conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. At the end of World War II, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into Soviet (North Korean) and U.S. (South Korean) zones of occupation. , saying he was known as ``Whistlin' Joe'' because he attached a whistle to his airplane's wing to scare the enemy. Smith, a Florida resident, was the first Air Force pilot assigned to test the F-15 Eagle fighter jet and was responsible for much of its early development and testing. Smith was one of three pilots who flew F-15s to eight world time-to-climb records. Truly, a Navy carrier pilot who now lives in Colorado, flew the space shuttle space shuttle, reusable U.S. space vehicle. Developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), it consists of a winged orbiter, two solid-rocket boosters, and an external tank. Columbia in 1981 and commanded the shuttle Challenger in 1983. He led the investigation into the 1986 Challenger disaster and served as NASA's top administrator from 1989 to 1992. Tymczyszyn was the Federal Aviation Administration's project pilot on America's first two jetliners, the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8. He also tested the Boeing 747, the propeller-driven Lockheed Constellation and hundreds of light planes. He also certified the tiny Robinson R-22 helicopter. CAPTION(S): 6 photos Photo: (1 -- color) From left, Richard Truly; Thomas Morganfield; Roger Smith; Joseph Tymczyszyn's widow, Sease; and Joseph Rogers. Special to the Daily News (2 -- ran in AV edition only) MORGANFELD (3 -- ran in AV edition only) ROGERS (4 -- ran in AV edition only) SMITH (5 -- ran in AV edition only) TRULY (6 -- ran in AV edition only) TYMCZYSZYN |
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