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Bruce Peterson with actor James Doohan (left) discussing the M2-F2 Lifting Body in 1967 Bruce Peterson, 3rd from left, with fellow pilots Milt Thompson, Don Mallick and Chuck Yeager (in the cockpit of the M2-F1) Following attending UCLA, Peterson enlisted as a naval aviation cadet and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine ...
The crash footage during the opening credits is from the M2-F2 crash that occurred on May 10, 1967. Test pilot Bruce Peterson's lifting body aircraft hit the ground at approximately 250 mph (402 km/h) and tumbled six times, [4] but Peterson survived what appeared to be a fatal accident, though he later lost an eye to infection.
Before powered flights were undertaken, a series of glide flights were conducted. On May 10, 1967, the sixteenth and last glide flight ended in disaster as the vehicle slammed into the lake bed on landing. With test pilot Bruce Peterson at the controls, the M2-F2 suffered a pilot induced oscillation (PIO) as it neared the lake bed. At the core ...
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The crash of Curtiss O-52 Owl, 40-2780, c/n 14313, [46] of the 392d Observation Training Squadron, Brooks Field, Texas, when it spins in [44] a short distance from that base, kills 2d Lt. Robert E. Kuhn, 23, Chicago, pilot, and 2d Lt. Robert O. Fechtner, 21, Boling, Texas, observer. [47] 14 April
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