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Box 21

 Container

Contains 15 Collections and/or Records:

Professional Career, 1951 - 2013

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Jerry L. Ross papers document Ross' student life at Purdue, his test flight engineer work, and NASA career as an engineer and astronaut. The collection includes Purdue coursework and memorabilia; papers from Ross' work at Edwards Air Force Base, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, and Test Pilot School; NASA Space Shuttle training, mission documents and mission related scrapbooks, memorabilia, and flight crew films and interviews, along with documents and maps from Ross' work on Space Shuttle...
Dates: 1951 - 2013

Air Force Active Duty and Test Pilot School, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Edwards Air Force Base, 1951 - 1978

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 3, Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents This sub-series covers the time Ross was in test pilot school, and includes his flight test engineer training course application, Air Force active duty documents and test pilot course material. Also included are student flight records and checklists for T-33, F-4, O-2A and RF-4C and a flight test engineering handbook, Ramjet propulsion documents and research, overhead sled testing/MACH transparencies, "Design MACH 23" and speech notes, and Society of Experimental Test Pilot Reports to the...
Dates: 1951 - 1978

Jerry L. Ross papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 283
Scope and Contents The Jerry L. Ross papers document Ross' student life at Purdue, his test flight engineer work, and NASA career as an engineer and astronaut. The collection includes Purdue coursework and memorabilia; papers from Ross' work at Edwards Air Force Base, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, and Test Pilot School; NASA Space Shuttle training, mission documents and mission related scrapbooks, memorabilia, and flight crew films and interviews, along with documents and maps from Ross' work on Space Shuttle...
Dates: 1940 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2000

Overhead transparencies, circa 1973

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 3, File 32
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This sub-series covers the time Ross was in test pilot school, and includes his flight test engineer training course application, Air Force active duty documents and test pilot course material. Also included are student flight records and checklists for T-33, F-4, O-2A and RF-4C and a flight test engineering handbook, Ramjet propulsion documents and research, overhead sled testing/MACH transparencies, "Design MACH 23" and speech notes, and Society of Experimental Test Pilot Reports to the...
Dates: circa 1973

Three-Stage Outrigger Sled, circa 1973

 Item — Box: 21, Folder: 1, Item: 1
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 3, File 32, Item 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This sub-series covers the time Ross was in test pilot school, and includes his flight test engineer training course application, Air Force active duty documents and test pilot course material. Also included are student flight records and checklists for T-33, F-4, O-2A and RF-4C and a flight test engineering handbook, Ramjet propulsion documents and research, overhead sled testing/MACH transparencies, "Design MACH 23" and speech notes, and Society of Experimental Test Pilot Reports to the...
Dates: circa 1973

Outline; A program to investigate the potential of rocket sled testing of low altitude airbreathing propulsion systems, circa 1973

 Item — Box: 21, Folder: 1, Item: 2
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 3, File 32, Item 2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This sub-series covers the time Ross was in test pilot school, and includes his flight test engineer training course application, Air Force active duty documents and test pilot course material. Also included are student flight records and checklists for T-33, F-4, O-2A and RF-4C and a flight test engineering handbook, Ramjet propulsion documents and research, overhead sled testing/MACH transparencies, "Design MACH 23" and speech notes, and Society of Experimental Test Pilot Reports to the...
Dates: circa 1973

Feasibility of Ramjet engine test capability on the Holloman sled track, circa 1973

 Item — Box: 21, Folder: 1, Item: 4
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 3, File 32, Item 4
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This sub-series covers the time Ross was in test pilot school, and includes his flight test engineer training course application, Air Force active duty documents and test pilot course material. Also included are student flight records and checklists for T-33, F-4, O-2A and RF-4C and a flight test engineering handbook, Ramjet propulsion documents and research, overhead sled testing/MACH transparencies, "Design MACH 23" and speech notes, and Society of Experimental Test Pilot Reports to the...
Dates: circa 1973

Design criteria, circa 1973

 Item — Box: 21, Folder: 1, Item: 5
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 3, File 32, Item 5
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This sub-series covers the time Ross was in test pilot school, and includes his flight test engineer training course application, Air Force active duty documents and test pilot course material. Also included are student flight records and checklists for T-33, F-4, O-2A and RF-4C and a flight test engineering handbook, Ramjet propulsion documents and research, overhead sled testing/MACH transparencies, "Design MACH 23" and speech notes, and Society of Experimental Test Pilot Reports to the...
Dates: circa 1973

Summary of tests, circa 1973

 Item — Box: 21, Folder: 1, Item: 6
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 3, File 32, Item 6
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This sub-series covers the time Ross was in test pilot school, and includes his flight test engineer training course application, Air Force active duty documents and test pilot course material. Also included are student flight records and checklists for T-33, F-4, O-2A and RF-4C and a flight test engineering handbook, Ramjet propulsion documents and research, overhead sled testing/MACH transparencies, "Design MACH 23" and speech notes, and Society of Experimental Test Pilot Reports to the...
Dates: circa 1973

Run 5, February 16, 1973

 Item — Box: 21, Folder: 1, Item: 9
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 3, File 32, Item 9
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This sub-series covers the time Ross was in test pilot school, and includes his flight test engineer training course application, Air Force active duty documents and test pilot course material. Also included are student flight records and checklists for T-33, F-4, O-2A and RF-4C and a flight test engineering handbook, Ramjet propulsion documents and research, overhead sled testing/MACH transparencies, "Design MACH 23" and speech notes, and Society of Experimental Test Pilot Reports to the...
Dates: February 16, 1973

Run 6, April 6, 1973

 Item — Box: 21, Folder: 1, Item: 10
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 3, File 32, Item 10
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This sub-series covers the time Ross was in test pilot school, and includes his flight test engineer training course application, Air Force active duty documents and test pilot course material. Also included are student flight records and checklists for T-33, F-4, O-2A and RF-4C and a flight test engineering handbook, Ramjet propulsion documents and research, overhead sled testing/MACH transparencies, "Design MACH 23" and speech notes, and Society of Experimental Test Pilot Reports to the...
Dates: April 6, 1973

Run 7 , June 19, 1973

 Item — Box: 21, Folder: 1, Item: 11
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 3, File 32, Item 11
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This sub-series covers the time Ross was in test pilot school, and includes his flight test engineer training course application, Air Force active duty documents and test pilot course material. Also included are student flight records and checklists for T-33, F-4, O-2A and RF-4C and a flight test engineering handbook, Ramjet propulsion documents and research, overhead sled testing/MACH transparencies, "Design MACH 23" and speech notes, and Society of Experimental Test Pilot Reports to the...
Dates: June 19, 1973

Summary, 1973

 Item — Box: 21, Folder: 1, Item: 12
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 3, File 32, Item 12
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This sub-series covers the time Ross was in test pilot school, and includes his flight test engineer training course application, Air Force active duty documents and test pilot course material. Also included are student flight records and checklists for T-33, F-4, O-2A and RF-4C and a flight test engineering handbook, Ramjet propulsion documents and research, overhead sled testing/MACH transparencies, "Design MACH 23" and speech notes, and Society of Experimental Test Pilot Reports to the...
Dates: 1973

Narration for slides? , undated

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 3, File 33
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This sub-series covers the time Ross was in test pilot school, and includes his flight test engineer training course application, Air Force active duty documents and test pilot course material. Also included are student flight records and checklists for T-33, F-4, O-2A and RF-4C and a flight test engineering handbook, Ramjet propulsion documents and research, overhead sled testing/MACH transparencies, "Design MACH 23" and speech notes, and Society of Experimental Test Pilot Reports to the...
Dates: undated

Test Pilot School , 1951 - 1978

 Sub-Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This sub-series covers the time Ross was in test pilot school, and includes his flight test engineer training course application, Air Force active duty documents and test pilot course material. Also included are student flight records and checklists for T-33, F-4, O-2A and RF-4C and a flight test engineering handbook, Ramjet propulsion documents and research, overhead sled testing/MACH transparencies, "Design MACH 23" and speech notes, and Society of Experimental Test Pilot Reports to the...
Dates: 1951 - 1978