Box 4
Container
Contains 7 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
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
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
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