TEST PILOTS TO BE HONORED ON AEROSPACE WALK EVENT WILL ALSO REMEMBER 9-11 VICTIMS.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer 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 will honor five test pilots and remember the victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The Sept. 11 celebration will honor test pilots whose 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:
``We will celebrate the accomplishments of five men who dedicated their lives to pushing the barrier of flight,'' Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
The Aerospace Walk of Honor Aviation Faire will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 11 with displays, aviation vendors and music by an Air Force band at Boeing Plaza, under the pedestal-mounted F-4 Phantom fighter jet at Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling and Lancaster Boulevard. Admission is free. Bronze plaques honoring the five pilots will be unveiled at 11:30 a.m., following a moment of silence for the 9-11 victims. Visitors can sign a remembrance book for 9-11 victims and view 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 . A formal banquet will follow at 6 that night at the Park Plaza Convention Center. Banquet tickets are $75. Honored will be Thomas Morganfeld, Joseph Rogers, Roger Smith, Joseph Tymczyszyn and Richard Truly. Tymczyszyn died in 1999 at age 81. 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 The Convair F-106A Delta Dart was the primary all-weather interceptor aircraft for the United States Air Force from the 1960s through the 1980s. Designed as the so-called "Ultimate Interceptor," it has proved to be the last dedicated interceptor in USAF service to date. 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 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 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. ``This is an incredible group of men, as has been the case for the last 15 years,'' Assistant City Manager Dennis Davenport said. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color -- ran in AV edition only) Lancaster Councilman Ed Sileo speaks at the announcement of the newest men to be honored on the Aerospace Walk of Honor. A Sept. 11 celebration will formally honor the five test pilots. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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