Box 4
Container
Contains 18 Collections and/or Records:
Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 6
Scope and Contents
The Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers document the extensive Air Force and NASA career of Roy D. Bridges Jr.The papers include but are not limited to, artifacts, audio visual material, awards, books, briefs and records, certificates, clippings, clothing, correspondence, diaries, documents, flight logs, flight checklists and data files, along with Bridges' pilot kneeboard notes, medals, mementos, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, textbooks, research papers, and working paper...
Dates:
1950 - 2013
Statics - Dynamics Review, USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School, January 1969
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 1, Sub-Series 4, File 4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contained in this series are brochures, class photographs, correspondence, grade reports, research papers, scrapbook, textbooks, and transcripts among other items from throughout Bridges' education. Of special note is a service project scrapbook; "Single Service Project '333', Key Club of Gainesville High School," from Bridges' senior year in high school. The project won first place at the Key Club International Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 1961, the year Bridges was president of the club....
Dates:
January 1969
Thermodynamics Review, USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School , 1970
File — Box: 4, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 1, Sub-Series 4, File 5
Scope and Contents
Includes an exam and some assignments.
Dates:
1970
Calculus Review Course, USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School , 1970
File — Box: 4, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 1, Sub-Series 4, File 6
Scope and Contents
Includes an exam and some assignments.
Dates:
1970
T-33A Boom Pitot Static System Free Air Temperature Indicating System, Limited Systems Evaluation, Roy D. Bridges, Jr., Aerospace Research Pilot School (Class 70-B), Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, California (student report), September 8, 1970
File — Box: 4, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 1, Sub-Series 4, File 7
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contained in this series are brochures, class photographs, correspondence, grade reports, research papers, scrapbook, textbooks, and transcripts among other items from throughout Bridges' education. Of special note is a service project scrapbook; "Single Service Project '333', Key Club of Gainesville High School," from Bridges' senior year in high school. The project won first place at the Key Club International Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 1961, the year Bridges was president of the club....
Dates:
September 8, 1970
T-33A Limited Category II Performance Evaluation, Roy D. Bridges, Jr., Aerospace Research Pilot School (Class 70-B), Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, California , December 2, 1970
File — Box: 4, Folder: 8
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 1, Sub-Series 4, File 8
Scope and Contents
Student report, includes presentation note cards.
Dates:
December 2, 1970
Flight Report Limited Spin Evaluation of the T-33A, Roy D. Bridges, Jr., Aerospace Research Pilot School (Class 70-B), Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, California (student report), December 23, 1970
File — Box: 4, Folder: 9
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 1, Sub-Series 4, File 9
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contained in this series are brochures, class photographs, correspondence, grade reports, research papers, scrapbook, textbooks, and transcripts among other items from throughout Bridges' education. Of special note is a service project scrapbook; "Single Service Project '333', Key Club of Gainesville High School," from Bridges' senior year in high school. The project won first place at the Key Club International Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 1961, the year Bridges was president of the club....
Dates:
December 23, 1970
Papers on the Aerospace Research Pilot School (now the Air Force Test Pilot School) - Simulation and F-104 curriculum, 1970
File — Box: 4, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 1, Sub-Series 4, File 10
Scope and Contents
Per Bridges, "This folder contains a lot of information on the F-104 zoom program, lifting body approaches and space simulations that were taught at the school at the time. All of these were very helpful in qualifying me for selection as an astronaut candidate."
Dates:
1970
Brochure, Air Force Flight Test Center, Air Force Systems Command, Edwards Air Force Base, California - USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School, Class 70-B, 1971
File — Box: 4, Folder: 11
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 1, Sub-Series 4, File 11
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contained in this series are brochures, class photographs, correspondence, grade reports, research papers, scrapbook, textbooks, and transcripts among other items from throughout Bridges' education. Of special note is a service project scrapbook; "Single Service Project '333', Key Club of Gainesville High School," from Bridges' senior year in high school. The project won first place at the Key Club International Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 1961, the year Bridges was president of the club....
Dates:
1971
Program, Class 70B Aerospace Research Pilot School, Edwards Air Force Base, California , July 16, 1971
File — Box: 4, Folder: 12
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 1, Sub-Series 4, File 12
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contained in this series are brochures, class photographs, correspondence, grade reports, research papers, scrapbook, textbooks, and transcripts among other items from throughout Bridges' education. Of special note is a service project scrapbook; "Single Service Project '333', Key Club of Gainesville High School," from Bridges' senior year in high school. The project won first place at the Key Club International Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 1961, the year Bridges was president of the club....
Dates:
July 16, 1971
Desert Wings, "ARPS graduates 15 tonight, Collins to be guest speaker," July 16, 1971, and "Capts. Bridges, Jones receive ARPS awards", July 23, 1971
File — Box: 4, Folder: 13
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 1, Sub-Series 4, File 13
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contained in this series are brochures, class photographs, correspondence, grade reports, research papers, scrapbook, textbooks, and transcripts among other items from throughout Bridges' education. Of special note is a service project scrapbook; "Single Service Project '333', Key Club of Gainesville High School," from Bridges' senior year in high school. The project won first place at the Key Club International Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 1961, the year Bridges was president of the club....
Dates:
July 23, 1971
Correspondence to Major Richard G. Head, in regards to Major Donald L. Thurman, Class of 1960, upon his death, June 26, 1971
File — Box: 4, Folder: 14
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 1, Sub-Series 4, File 14
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contained in this series are brochures, class photographs, correspondence, grade reports, research papers, scrapbook, textbooks, and transcripts among other items from throughout Bridges' education. Of special note is a service project scrapbook; "Single Service Project '333', Key Club of Gainesville High School," from Bridges' senior year in high school. The project won first place at the Key Club International Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 1961, the year Bridges was president of the club....
Dates:
June 26, 1971
Certificate, "Mach Deuce," rating in the Royal Order of Starfighters, Capt. Roy D. Bridges, Jr., for flying twice the speed of sound in the F-104, undated, and name plate, Air Force Flight Test Center, Mrs. R.D. Bridges, Jr., undated
File — Box: 4, Folder: 15
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 1, Sub-Series 4, File 15
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contained in this series are brochures, class photographs, correspondence, grade reports, research papers, scrapbook, textbooks, and transcripts among other items from throughout Bridges' education. Of special note is a service project scrapbook; "Single Service Project '333', Key Club of Gainesville High School," from Bridges' senior year in high school. The project won first place at the Key Club International Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 1961, the year Bridges was president of the club....
Dates:
undated
Certificate, "One 1st Lt. Roy Bridges is a member of the official military instantaneous acceleration society given at Physiological Training Unit, USAF Hospital, Williams AFB, Arizona," and brochure for "Rancho Bienestar," Chandler, Arizona, circa 1966
File — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 1, Sub-Series 4, File 1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contained in this series are brochures, class photographs, correspondence, grade reports, research papers, scrapbook, textbooks, and transcripts among other items from throughout Bridges' education. Of special note is a service project scrapbook; "Single Service Project '333', Key Club of Gainesville High School," from Bridges' senior year in high school. The project won first place at the Key Club International Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 1961, the year Bridges was president of the club....
Dates:
circa 1966
A Programmed Text for Principles of Flight , 1967
File — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 1, Sub-Series 4, File 2
Scope and Contents
Textbook used by Bridges in undergraduate pilot training, Williams Air Force Base, Arizona.
Dates:
1967
F100 Training Manual: Non-Nuclear Weapons, March - November 1967
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 1, Sub-Series 4, File 3
Scope and Contents
Training manual used by Bridges during his F-100 Advanced Training at Cannon AFB, New Mexico, prior to his flying this aircraft in South Vietnam.
Dates:
March - November 1967
Education, 1960 - 2009
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 1
Scope and Contents
Contained in this series are brochures, class photographs, correspondence, grade reports, research papers, scrapbook, textbooks, and transcripts among other items from throughout Bridges' education. Of special note is a service project scrapbook; "Single Service Project '333', Key Club of Gainesville High School," from Bridges' senior year in high school. The project won first place at the Key Club International Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 1961, the year Bridges was president of the club....
Dates:
1960 - 2009
Student Pilot Training, 1966 - 1976
Sub-Series — Box: 4
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 1, Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contained in this series are brochures, class photographs, correspondence, grade reports, research papers, scrapbook, textbooks, and transcripts among other items from throughout Bridges' education. Of special note is a service project scrapbook; "Single Service Project '333', Key Club of Gainesville High School," from Bridges' senior year in high school. The project won first place at the Key Club International Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 1961, the year Bridges was president of the club....
Dates:
1966 - 1976