Box 18
Container
Contains 11 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
News releases and memorial services information on a helicopter crash at Edwards AFB in which 3 people died, October 10, 1991
File — Box: 18, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 2, Sub-Series 7, File 4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
General Bridges served as Commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB from August 1991 to June 1993. Some of the items in this sub-series, but not limited to are: "Air Force Flight Test Center Strategic Plan," various documents supporting the "Strategic Plan Offsite," 20 - 21 April 1992 (includes Bridges' handwritten speaking notes and charts for kicking off the discussion); program, correspondence, invitation, photograph, clippings and miscellaneous material from Fiftieth...
Dates:
October 10, 1991
Blue pouch folder: Contains briefings to Lieutenant General Howard Leaf, (retired) Director of T&E, HQ USAF during his visit to Edwards AFB , December 12, 1991
File — Box: 18, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 2, Sub-Series 7, File 6
Scope and Contents
Background material is in a brown manila folder slipped inside the blue pouch folder.
Dates:
December 12, 1991
Counseling form and Brides' handwritten notes for counseling the new Wing Commander, Col Rich Engle on his arrival , January 13, 1992
File — Box: 18, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 2, Sub-Series 7, File 7
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
General Bridges served as Commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB from August 1991 to June 1993. Some of the items in this sub-series, but not limited to are: "Air Force Flight Test Center Strategic Plan," various documents supporting the "Strategic Plan Offsite," 20 - 21 April 1992 (includes Bridges' handwritten speaking notes and charts for kicking off the discussion); program, correspondence, invitation, photograph, clippings and miscellaneous material from Fiftieth...
Dates:
January 13, 1992
Thinking Corporately, "The Haystack Syndrome," Eliyahu M. Goldratt ("Ideas presented by Roy D. Bridges"), February 1992
File — Box: 18, Folder: 8
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 2, Sub-Series 7, File 8
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
General Bridges served as Commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB from August 1991 to June 1993. Some of the items in this sub-series, but not limited to are: "Air Force Flight Test Center Strategic Plan," various documents supporting the "Strategic Plan Offsite," 20 - 21 April 1992 (includes Bridges' handwritten speaking notes and charts for kicking off the discussion); program, correspondence, invitation, photograph, clippings and miscellaneous material from Fiftieth...
Dates:
February 1992
Travel itineraries and other material related to the visit of French Air Force General Groualle to the United States , November 1992
File — Box: 18, Folder: 11
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 2, Sub-Series 7, File 11
Scope and Contents
Hosted by Bridges as the AFFTC Commander as well as information on an earlier visit to France by Bridges hosted by General Groualle.
Dates:
November 1992
Certificate of Appointment, Major General Roy D. Bridges, Jr., Honorary Noncommissioned Officer in the grade of Chief Master Sergeant in the United States Air Force, by the Chiefs and Enlisted Personnel of Edwards Air Force Base, June 11, 1993
File — Box: 18, Folder: 12
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 2, Sub-Series 7, File 12
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
General Bridges served as Commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB from August 1991 to June 1993. Some of the items in this sub-series, but not limited to are: "Air Force Flight Test Center Strategic Plan," various documents supporting the "Strategic Plan Offsite," 20 - 21 April 1992 (includes Bridges' handwritten speaking notes and charts for kicking off the discussion); program, correspondence, invitation, photograph, clippings and miscellaneous material from Fiftieth...
Dates:
June 11, 1993
Campus to Corridor Plan, Edwards Air Force Base, CA, July 1993
File — Box: 18, Folder: 13
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 2, Sub-Series 7, File 13
Scope and Contents
Includes an accompanying letter from Dr. Bill Qualls, the consultant who helped Bridges and his team create it while Bridges was the Commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center.
Dates:
July 1993
Strategic Plan and GIS Plan, contains Edwards AFB Plans for its Future-Into the Twenty-First Century; Talking Paper on Status of Geographic Information System (GIS) Pilot Project for Major General Bridges, and GIS Pilot Project Demonstration, 1992 - 1993
File — Box: 18, Folder: 14
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 2, Sub-Series 7, File 14
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
General Bridges served as Commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB from August 1991 to June 1993. Some of the items in this sub-series, but not limited to are: "Air Force Flight Test Center Strategic Plan," various documents supporting the "Strategic Plan Offsite," 20 - 21 April 1992 (includes Bridges' handwritten speaking notes and charts for kicking off the discussion); program, correspondence, invitation, photograph, clippings and miscellaneous material from Fiftieth...
Dates:
1992 - 1993
Air Force Career, 1964 - 1996
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 2
Scope and Contents
Major General Bridges' Air Force Career spanned thirty-one years. The nine sub-series follow his career path; F-100 pilot, 416th Tactical Fighter Squadron and Commando Sabre Operation (Misty), Phu Cat Air Base, Republic of Vietnam; Test Pilot, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California; Astronaut Application Process and Selection; Commander, 6510th Test Wing, Edwards Air Force Base, California; Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida;...
Dates:
1964 - 1996
Commander, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California, 1991 - 1993
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 2, Sub-Series 7
Scope and Contents
General Bridges served as Commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB from August 1991 to June 1993. Some of the items in this sub-series, but not limited to are: "Air Force Flight Test Center Strategic Plan," various documents supporting the "Strategic Plan Offsite," 20 - 21 April 1992 (includes Bridges' handwritten speaking notes and charts for kicking off the discussion); program, correspondence, invitation, photograph, clippings and miscellaneous material from Fiftieth...
Dates:
1991 - 1993