ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL B-1 BOMBER FLIGHT TEST CREWS: 6 PILOTS & ENGINEERS

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A perfect 8 X 10 black and white photo of the CHARLIE BROCK, Chief Pilot; Col. TED STURMTHALT, Chief Pilot; DOUG BENEFIELD, Project Pilot; Lt. Col. ED McDOWELL, Project Pilot; DICK ABRAMS, Flight Engineer and KEN MARTIN, Flight Engineer. 1-4494
BOCK, Charles C. Jr.
TEST PILOT.
Purdue; USAF service in Korea; Experimental Test Pilot School at
Edwards AFB
(circa 1954); Aerospace Research Pilots School at
Edwards AFB
(1962);
North American Rockwell (1973- );
North American Rockwell Aviation, Inc production test pilot and later chief test pilot at their Los Angeles Division
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; first flight, with USAF COL Emil “Ted” Sturmthal, copilot, of the North American Rockwell B-1 bomber (1974)
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; at the time of the B-1 first flight he had logged 7500 hours; North American Rockwell chief test pilot; Society of Experimental Test Pilots
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. (LTC, USAF.).
STURMTHAL, Emil “Ted”.
B-1 TEST PILOT AND PROJECT MANAGER.
Combat pilot tours in Korea and Southeast Asia, where he flew 196 missions;
Participated in the test programs of the XB-70, B-58, B-52, C-130, T-37B and made the first flight of the RB-57F; Air Force project manager of the B-1 bomber project;
with pilot Charles Bock and flight test engineer Richard Abrams, first flight of the North American B-1 bomber (1974)
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; Society of Experimental Test Pilots member. (COL, USAF.).
BENEFIELD, Tommie Douglas “Doug”.
TEST PILOT.
USAF (circa 1949-74);
North American Aviation, Inc engineering test pilot at their Los Angeles Division (1974- ); Society of Experimental Test Pilots member
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. (LTC, USAF).
McDOWELL, Edward D. Jr.
TEST PILOT SOCIETY MEMBER.
GA Tech; USAF pilot (1959); USAF Experimental Test Pilot School; USAF project pilot on the North American Rockwell B-1 (1974); Society of Experimental Test Pilots member. (LTC, USAF.).
ABRAMS, Richard.
FIRST FLIGHT OF THE B-1 BOMBER.
Flight test engineer, w
ith pilots Charles Brock and COL Emil “Ted” Sturmthal, first flight of the North American B-1 bomber (1974).
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