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  • Col Robert K. Parsons USAF Ret
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    Wall of Honor Level:
    Air and Space Friend

    Honored by:

    Commander 366th TAC Fighter Wing.
    Experimental Test Pilot, Graduate Space Class III Edwards AFB, "Who's Who" in aviation 1972.
    Test pilot for F-5 spin test, F-4 stability and control and Chief Test Pilot for all models of F-111 aircraft.
    IP on first nonstop without air refueling on jet fighter crossing of Atlantic (F-111, 1967)
    Flew demonstration flights (F-111) at Paris Air Show in 1967.
    First air refueling flights in F-5, F-4 and F-111 aircraft.
    Command Pilot on Apollo Lunar mission for NASA (5 weeks).
    Combat Tours in Vietnam.
    First supersonic terrain following flights at 200 ft. above ground level.
    Degrees in Engineering, and J. D. in law.
    Member of ABA, Florida and West Virginia Bars and Society of Experimental Test Pilots.

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