Evening Mooch!
I think we all should be in southern California right about now to thaw out!
Named after one (of many!) fallen pilots who crashed while testing USAF and Navy planes out there.
See if you can post a list of all the test pilots who died so we can learn. The British test pilot story (of many other lives lost due to loose bolts, backwards control wires, no fuel, bad wings, bad designs, turbulence, wrong O-rings, bad engines, bad guns, bad manuaevers, bad planning, no experience at that altitude, aerodynamic “oops - we didn’t know that was going to happen! ... is Tests of Character, by Donald Middleton.