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 .p20 Solo on 20th flight, crosswind practice at [[ http://www.airfields-freeman.com/FL/Airfields_FL_Pensacola_E.htm | Bagdad
 airfield ]] [[ http://www.airfields-freeman.com/FL/Bagdad_FL_WW2.jpg | photo ]]
 .p20 Solo on 20th flight, crosswind practice at [[ http://www.airfields-freeman.com/FL/Airfields_FL_Pensacola_E.htm | Bagdad airfield ]] [[ http://www.airfields-freeman.com/FL/Bagdad_FL_WW2.jpg | photo ]]
 .p26 Navy wings 1954 / p27 Training Lockheed "TV-2" (actually [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_T2V_SeaStar | T2V ]])
 .p28 Deploy [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Corps_Air_Station_Cherry_Point | MCAS Cherry Point ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_F2H_Banshee | Douglas F2H-4 Banshee ]], p29 1954 married hs girlfriend Mary Griffith Grant
 .p30 1st ''never panic early'': flameout over Atlantic, dive and roll, recovered and landed at [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Executive_Airport | Tamiami Airport ]]
 .p31 towed through Miami to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_International_Airport | Miami International Airport ]]
 .p32 First supersonic flight, Mach 1.2 diving an [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F-9_Cougar | F-9 Cougar ]]
 .p35 1956 22yo, 1734 flight hours, matriculates U. Oklahoma, attached to Air National Guard
 .p36 Marines to Air Force, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-80_Shooting_Star | P-80 Shooting Star ]] then supersonic [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-86_Sabre | F-86 Sabrejet ]]
 .p39 1959 Sep 14, hired by NASA Lewis (now Glenn) in Cleveland ... Rocket engine test at Rocky River Creek(?)
 .p42 1960 started Lewis zero-G flight program, used [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_AJ_Savage | AJ-2 Savage ]]
 .p43 Free piston oil reservoirs for zero-G p44 22 to 27 sec zero-G
 .p44 D-3380 [[ https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19660014262/downloads/19660014262.pdf?attachment=true | Use of aircraft for zero-gravity environment ]]
 .p45 Stationed at NASA Lewis. Urgent night airdrop of pyros for Aerobee launch scheduled the next morning.
 .p46 1962 transfers to Edwards AFB, "Armstrong" ''(sic)'' Flight Research Center
  . er no, was [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Flight_Research_Center | NASA Flight Research Center ]] after 1959
  . 1976 NASA Ames-Dryden, then 2014 Armstrong Flight Research Center
 .p47 after 6mo. rental, bought home at [[ https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6925674,-118.155288,157m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&entry=ttu | 44561 Leatherwood Ave Lancaster ]]
 .p49 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_M2-F1 | NASA M2-F1 lifting body ]] / Many aircraft, many flights per month
 .p52 1964 Aerospace Research Pilot School (?) with [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_L._Mallick | Don Mallick ]]
 .p53-55 visits European flight centers with Chuck Yeager, lacking passport
 .p55 Edwards, testing F10x series aircraft
 .p56-7 mentions [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Orbiting_Laboratory | Manned Orbiting Laboratory Program ]]
 .p58 NASA[[ https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19660030615 | An evaluation of the handling qualities of seven general-aviation aircraft ]]
 .p59 Testing [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_PA-30_Twin_Comanche | Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche ]] [[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfL6iyeH8OA | damaging tail flutter ]]
 .p60 1966 Feb 8 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/311th_Human_Systems_Wing | Aerospace Medical Division ]] Brookes AFB San Antonio
 .p62 1966 Apr 24 to NASA JSC, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Astronaut_Group_5 | Original 19 ]] astronauts
 .p63 Training: PR, Grand Canyon, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katmai_National_Park_and_Preserve | Katmai National Park ]], Iceland, Mauna Loa/Kea, more volcanic areas
 .p65-8 survival training
 .p68-77 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module | LM ]] development and training at [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman | Grumman ]] Bethpage Long Island
 .p79 1967 June 22 First LM delivered for first test flight on [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_IB | S-IB Saturn ]]
 .p82 LM drop tests, 6.3 Gs forwards, 3 Gs sideways, 6 Gs vertically
 .p84 Apollo 9 (later 8, circumlunar CSM only) backup crew with Armstrong and Aldrin
 .p85 CSM-104 testing at North American plant
 .p87 CM simulator 500 credible (survivable) failures, 300 for LM simulator
 .p89 centrifuge simulation, steeper reentry up to 18 Gs. p90 practiced pad escape
 .p90 member of [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Wendt | Günter Wendt's ]] closeout crew
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Never Panic Early

An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey

Fred Haise with Bill Moore 2022

Tigard Library - B Haise F

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