Ninety-Nine Years Ago This Week: Pilot Lt Harold R. Harris Makes Air Force Life Cycle Management Center History
October 19, 2021
October 19, 2021
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Oct. 19 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news on Oct. 18, 2021:
McCook Field Engineering Division chief test pilot Lt Harold R. Harris became the first person to successfully bail out of a plane in an emergency using the freefall, ripcord-operated parachute.
Harris was engaged in a mock dogfight with Lt Muir Fairchild when the experimental balanced ailerons on his plane oscillated uncontrollably, leading . . .
McCook Field Engineering Division chief test pilot Lt Harold R. Harris became the first person to successfully bail out of a plane in an emergency using the freefall, ripcord-operated parachute.
Harris was engaged in a mock dogfight with Lt Muir Fairchild when the experimental balanced ailerons on his plane oscillated uncontrollably, leading . . .