Re: Flight Testing at Edwards


Message posted by Peter Merlin on July 29, 2004 at 21:34:24 PST:

The designation "DET 3, AFFTC" is well documented in unclassified material and does not just come from the "DET 3 SP JOB KNOWLEDGE" handbook. DET 3, AFFTC was originally designated as the 6516th Test Squadron, reporting to the 6510th Test Wing. The Air Force Flight Test Center commander decided that it would be better to have it as a direct-reporting unit under AFFTC and so it was retroactively designated and activated as such. (See the DREAMLAND Timeline article in the History section of this web site.) The detachment encompasses an operations group and several squadrons.


In Reply to: Flight Testing at Edwards posted by Super Dave on July 28, 2004 at 21:43:27 PST:

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