Guy M. Townsend
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Guy Mannering Townsend III was a retired United States Air Force Brigadier General, test pilot, and combat veteran. As an Air Force officer, he served as chief of bomber test at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, flew as co-pilot on the first flight of the B-52 Stratofortress, was test force director for the XB-70 Valkyrie, and served as program director for the C-5 Galaxy and B-1 Lancer. He was the first military pilot to fly the B-47 Stratojet, B-50 Superfortress,…mehr

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Guy Mannering Townsend III was a retired United States Air Force Brigadier General, test pilot, and combat veteran. As an Air Force officer, he served as chief of bomber test at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, flew as co-pilot on the first flight of the B-52 Stratofortress, was test force director for the XB-70 Valkyrie, and served as program director for the C-5 Galaxy and B-1 Lancer. He was the first military pilot to fly the B-47 Stratojet, B-50 Superfortress, B-52 Stratofortress, and the prototype of the KC-135 Stratotanker. During his years at Boeing, he was the head of the Supersonic Transport operations organization. Guy Townsend was born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1920 and graduated from San Jacinto High School in Houston, Texas in June 1939. He attended Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas where he studied aeronautical engineering from September 1939 to June 1941