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Cecil "Teddy" Kenyon, Barbara Kibbee Jayne, & Elizabeth Hooker Grumman Test Pilots

  • Trixie said:
    Cecil "Teddy" Kenyon, Barbara Kibbee Jayne, & Elizabeth Hooker In the spring of 1942, Jayne, Kenyon and Hooker were recruited by Bud Gillies, head of testing and Flight Operations at Grumman to be the first women test pilots of naval aircraft in the US. At the time, there was a shortage of pilots, but Gillies, whose wife Betty, was also a pilot and a member of the Women’s Auxillary Ferrying Squadron or WAFS, had tremendous faith in these women and in their abilities to get the job done; testing warplanes, before the planes could be shipped to the Navy for combat. (cradleofaviation.org)

F6F takes off from USS Lexington (CVA 16) for third day of strikes in attack on Mili Atoll, Marshall Islands., ca. 11/1943

Kenneth Smith Special Collection Photo

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  • airmanisr2 said:
    Bolling Field during late 1940’s airshow
  • Mitchel25J (69 plus million Views Thank You ) said:
    It has to be after 1950 since the first flight of the XC-99 wasn't till July of 1950
  • airmanisr2 said:
    Trying to dodge a Bullet XC-99 First flight was 23 November 1947 it was delivered to the Air Force on 23 November 1949 in July 1950, the XC-99 flew its first cargo mission
  • A30yoyo said:
    From the front, Grumman F6F Hellcat ,SA-16 Albatross, (R) B-25 Mitchell, (L) Chase YC-122 Avitruc, C-47, XC-99
  • A30yoyo said:
    In one of the other of these Air Show photos there's the XC-120 Pack Plane which didn't fly till 1950 And this forum thread which was lprobably about the same photos goes for 1952 warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&a...