Chris,
I was typing from memory, and memory is not infallable. Lou Everett flew
the X-13, but was killed in another unique aircraft. See the link below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Everett
Lou was not the only loss from our small group of Aeronautical Engineering
graduates. Fred Obarr, who graduated a year after me, was a First
Lieutenant assigned to the USAF Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at
Edwards AFB. He was killed in a planned parachute jump at El Centro,
California three weeks before he was scheduled to graduate.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: More Skippers
> Jim
>
> Those articles posted by Chris are interesting, but all the more so
> because of your link to Lou Everett. I suspect that you had to be pretty
> courageous to fly those early aircraft, especially the X-13.
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris
>
> On 24 Jun 2012, at 19:13, Jim Nichols wrote:
>
>> I am tragically familiar with the Ryan X-13. Lou Everett, mentioned in
>> the
>> article, was killed in one of these. Lou was a college classmate of
>> mine,
>> and gave me my first stick time in an airplane. He was towing research
>> sailplanes to 7000 ft in early morning air, using a repowered Stearman.
>> He
>> allowed me to ride up with him, and, after release, to fly the Stearman
>> down
>> and back over the field to drop the tow rope.
>>
>> A member of the Mississippi Air Guard, Lou would buzz the campus in his
>> P-47
>> ride. Fond memories of a fellow student whose life was cut too short.
>
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