Airplanes -- Flight testing
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Non-preferred term: Flight testing of airplanes
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Bernard G. Green Boeing Flight Test Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2025-12-11
Contents of the Collection
The Bernard G. Green Boeing Flight Test Collection contains 234 photographs and a small amount of textual material related to flight testing at the Boeing Company. Materials were collected and used by Bernard G. Green during his 35-year tenure as an engineer in the flight test department, circa 1950s-1996. The collection has been divided into series by aircraft model and then arranged chronologically. The first series focuses on the Boeing 707, 727 and...
Dates:
circa 1950s-1996
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
J. V. and Harley Hyde Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1985-08-15-A
Abstract
Jules Verne (J. V.) Hyde (1889-1953) and Harley Hyde (1892-1919) were brothers who served in World War I as flight instructors. The collection contains documents, clippings, and photographs relating to J. V. Hyde's military service during World War I, his post-war work as the first manager of Boeing Field, and later work at Boeing as an inspector. The collection also includes documents, clippings, and photographs about his brother Harley's World War I service and death due to an airplane...
Dates:
circa 1910s-1950
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Kenneth B. Luplow Collection
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2015-05-20
Content Description
The Kenneth B. Luplow Collection is a small collection consisting of a logbook and notebook dating to Luplow's time working for Boeing in the 1940s. The logbook spans 1941-1946, and documents Luplow's role as flight engineer on many first flights, including the XB-29 and XC-97 and XPBB-1. Other test flights documented include ones for B-17 variants. Test pilots documented in the log include J.B. Fornasero, Elliott Merrill, A.C. Reed, Edmund T. Allen, Robert Lamson, J.A. Fraser,...
Dates:
1941 - circa 1949
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives