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RFT 256: Test Pilot Charles Doryland

RFT 256: Test Pilot Charles Doryland

FromReady For Takeoff - Turn Your Aviation Passion Into A Career


RFT 256: Test Pilot Charles Doryland

FromReady For Takeoff - Turn Your Aviation Passion Into A Career

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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Jan 14, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Charles Doryland was an Eagle scout who attended West Point, intending to be an Infantry officer. During his senior year, while walking to the hospital to take his commissioning physical, he went to the Air Force line, thinking that he could choose either the Army or the Air Force. He passed his physical, and was offered a pilot training slot. He ended up flying F-86s after pilot training, then B-47s. Then he was selected for Test Pilot School, and was subsequently stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Later, after attending graduate school, he was assigned to Edwards Air Force Base. Charles was the pilot of "Balls Eight", B-52 number 8, on flights carrying the X-15s on their journeys into space. He volunteered to fly RF-4s in Vietnam, and achieved 100 missions over North Vietnam in five months, then served in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. Charles went back to graduate school for his Doctorate, and taught at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). Following his retirement from the Air Force he was a university professor until fully retiring at age 65.
Released:
Jan 14, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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The Ready For Takeoff podcast will help you transform your aviation passion into an aviation career. Every week we bring you instruction and interviews with top aviators in their field who reveal their flight path to an exciting career in the skies.