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C-130 Ski Model Prototype photo by Tom Hildreth |
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Lt.
Colonel Willard E. Fawcett, Chief, Flight Operations Division,
"Operation plan, No. 6-57, Ski Tests," Directorate Of Plight And All-Weather
Testing, Wright Air Development Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
[W-PAFB] not dated, 17 pages. |
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Captain John H. Johnson, Flight Test Engineer, "Preliminary Report On C-130A Ski-Wheel Installation, WCTEC 58-2," Directorate Of Flight And All-Weather Testing, W-PAFB, February 26, 1958, seven pages. |
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Major Charles E. Fitzwater, Flight Test Pilot, "Statement" [included in an accident report concerning damage to C-130A aircraft number 55-021 on the Greenland Ice Cap], April 18, 1958, two pages. |
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Second Lieutenant John C. McPherson, Flight Test Engineer, "Preliminary Report on the Greenland C-130A Ski Evaluation, WCLS 58-6," Directorate of Flight And All-Weather Testing, W-PAFB, May 1, 1958, six pages. |
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Colonel Joseph Davis, Jr., Commander, "Recommendation for Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross," Directorate Of Flight And All-Weather Testing, W-PAFB, August 12, 1958, five pages. |
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Flight Manual, USAF Series C-130D Aircraft, TO. 1C-130D-1, August 24, 1960.P.4-77. |
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Minutes of meeting, "UV-1L U.S. Navy (C-130B Ski-Wheel Aircraft," Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, September 10, 1959, three pages. |
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Robert W. Hemphill, Flight Test Engineer, "Wright Air Development Center Aircraft & Test Request, WCTE 59-27," Directorate of Flight And All-Weather Testing, WPAFB, January 11, 1960, three pages. |
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Col. William R. Large, Jr., Director of Test, Air Research & Development Command; USN Captain Lester S. Chambers, Bureau of Naval Weapons; Lt. Col. William A. Harmon, Chief, Transport System Program Office, "United States Air Force Joint Test Directive, T.D. NR- 59-155," January 26, 1960, seven pages. |
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Second Lt. Larry W. Wilson, Flight Test Engineer, "Flight Test Plan, Antarctic Snow Ski Testing of C-130BL Aircraft, FTP 60-28," Flight And Engineering Test Group, W-PAFB, May 26, 196o, 11 pages. Refs. p.2 |
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Robert W. Hemphill, Flight Test Engineer, "Flight Test Report, Snow Ski Testing Of The C-130D Aircraft, FTP 60-2," Flight And Engineering Test Group, W-PAFB, June 14, 1960, 10 pages |
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Lt. Col. Wilbert Turk, Commander, 61st Troop Carrier Squadron, "Mission Report-Phase I (TAC Mission 5603), Eastern Extension of the DEW Line," June 24,1959, 82 pages. |
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Major Fitzwater, Commander, Task Force Slide III, seven activity report letters to Captain H.E. Komodowski, W-PAFB, covering the test crew's activities during the period of October 27, 1960 to January 10, 1961. |
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P.O. Gillich, "Engineering Flight Test Operational Report C-130BL Phase II Tests At Antarctica," Report No. ER 4847, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation Georgia Division-Marietta, Georgia, May 26, 1961, 36 pages. |
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Lt. Larry W. Wilson, Division Test Engineer, "Flight And Engineering Test Report, Antarctic Evaluation of U.S. Navy C-130BL Ski-Wheel Aircraft, FTP 61-49, Flight And Engineering Test Group, W-PAFB, November 16, 1961, 12 pages. |
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"Task Force Slide" (USAF C-130 Ski Tests) by Kent A. Mitchell American Aviation Historical Journal |
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Article courtesy
of: Richard C.
"Dick" Dodge |
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