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RFT 256: Test Pilot Charles Doryland
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RFT 256: Test Pilot Charles Doryland
FromReady For Takeoff - Turn Your Aviation Passion Into A Career
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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Jan 14, 2019
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Podcast episode
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Charles Doryland was an Eagle scout who attended West Point, intending to be an Infantry officer. During his senior year, while walking to the hospital to take his commissioning physical, he went to the Air Force line, thinking that he could choose either the Army or the Air Force. He passed his physical, and was offered a pilot training slot. He ended up flying F-86s after pilot training, then B-47s. Then he was selected for Test Pilot School, and was subsequently stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Later, after attending graduate school, he was assigned to Edwards Air Force Base. Charles was the pilot of "Balls Eight", B-52 number 8, on flights carrying the X-15s on their journeys into space. He volunteered to fly RF-4s in Vietnam, and achieved 100 missions over North Vietnam in five months, then served in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. Charles went back to graduate school for his Doctorate, and taught at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). Following his retirement from the Air Force he was a university professor until fully retiring at age 65.
Released:
Jan 14, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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