26 July 1998 – Burt Rutan’s “Scaled Composites Model 281 Proteus is a tandem-wing high-altitude long endurance aircraft designed by Burt Rutan to investigate the use of aircraft as high altitude telecommunications relays. The Proteus is a multi-mission vehicle able to carry various payloads on a ventral pylon. The Proteus has an extremely efficient design,
Norman “Ken” Dyson (LtCol, USAF) “Headed West” on August 15, 2019 The Society of Experimental Test Pilots… [and the Super Sabre Society] …was saddened to learn of the “Last Flight” of Lt Col Ken Dyson, USAF (Ret) (F) on 15 August 2019. He was 81 years old. Ken was born 13 February 1938 in Marshall, […]
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SSS Member Ben Frank Sands, Jr. saw the world through a 20-year career in the US Air Force, including a 12-month tour of Vietnam in 1966-67. He spent another two decades as a respected professor of management at George Mason University. He died February 14, 2019 at Inova Loudoun Hospital from complications following abdominal surgery.
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