On the same solemn day, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in California officials remember three pilots in its history who died at the stick of a NASA or National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) aircraft. Lilly trained as a Naval aviator and joined the NACA’s Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Virginia, now known as Langley Research Center in 1942. In 1943 he transferred to the NACA’s Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio, (today’s Glenn Research Center) and then to Muroc in 1947. “Joe” Walker was a chief research pilot at the NASA Flight Research Center during the mid-1960s. Gray was an aerospace research pilot at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, from 1978 until he transferred to Ames-Dryden Flight Research Center, now NASA Armstrong.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 31, 2020 05:03 UTC