James W. Wood
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| Born | August 9, 1924 1960 Dyna-Soar Group 1 |
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James Wayne Wood (August 9, 1924 – January 1, 1990), (
program.Early life and education
Wood was born on August 9, 1924, in
Aeronautical Engineering from the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology
in 1954. He was married and had three children.
Test pilot
Wood served in the
, he flew more than 100 combat missions.As a
Edwards AFB, California when selected for the X-20 Dyna-Soar program in April 1960. However, before his selection, he had been an unsuccessful applicant for NASA Astronaut Group 1.[1] Wood was the senior test pilot on the Dyna-Soar project and was slated to be the pilot on its first sub-orbital mission. If the program had not been cancelled, the first drop test would have been in July 1964. After the Dyna-Soar program was cancelled on December 10, 1963, he remained with the U.S. Air Force and served as Commander of Test Operations at Edwards Air Force Base until 1978. He retired from the U.S. Air Force with the rank of colonel
. Wood later was test pilot and
Director of Operations, Tracor Flight Systems Inc., in Newport Beach, California.
Wood served as the 1975 president of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and was a Fellow of the organization.[2]
Death
Wood died in
natural causes
, aged 65.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4419-8404-3.
- ^ "Past Presidents of SETP". The Society of Experimental Test Pilots. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
External links
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