This is a DC-3, which was used extensively for testing of the P3C velocity sensor, and the pre-GPS Doppler navigation systems.I have flown on this aircraft many times including one time when the aircraft was blown off the runway by strong crosswinds. Still I feel this was the safest way to travel :-)
This was an attempt at a more modern test aircraft. It is a Gulfstream. It was used by compamy executives to the extent that some test engineers became part time bartenders.
Probably one of the most fun vehicles to be on is the Navy LCAC, or hovercraft. Although I didnt appreciate being on the selloff acceptance test, because that is when the most violent maneuvers are done to prove its capability, I did manage to get in about half an hour of sleep (spent the previous night in New Orleans) and avoid becoming seasick, or being locked below in the compartment where the velocity sensor is.
I know you are going to find this hard to beleive, but this is what a typical test setup looks like.
This page is dedicated to seven company executives, pilot, and co-pilot who lost there lives returing from a business trip on the last company owned aircraft not photographed. The westwind II, which I had flown on a lot during the development of the high altitude navigation set.
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