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Box 46

 Container

Contains 122 Collections and/or Records:

Cover page of Aviation Week & Space Technology, photograph, USAF/Fairchild A-10A first flight, July 3, 1972

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 2, Item: 18
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2, File 1, Item 18
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: This sub-group consists of photographs, certificates, and clippings from Bridges' time as a test pilot. The last 2/3rds of the binder contains clippings dealing with various aircraft, including Fairchild's A-10, A-7, Northrop A-9A, A-10A, A-7D, and fly-offs, circa 1972-1977.After returning from Vietnam, Bridges was assigned as an instructor pilot with the 3575th Pilot Training Squadron at Vance AFB, Oklahoma, from January 1969 to July 1970. He then attended Test Pilot School at...
Dates: July 3, 1972
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Test pilot, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California

Northrop Streamlines A-9A Management, Aviation Week & Space Technology, p. 107, June 26, 1972

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 2, Item: 19
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2, File 1, Item 19
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: This sub-group consists of photographs, certificates, and clippings from Bridges' time as a test pilot. The last 2/3rds of the binder contains clippings dealing with various aircraft, including Fairchild's A-10, A-7, Northrop A-9A, A-10A, A-7D, and fly-offs, circa 1972-1977.After returning from Vietnam, Bridges was assigned as an instructor pilot with the 3575th Pilot Training Squadron at Vance AFB, Oklahoma, from January 1969 to July 1970. He then attended Test Pilot School at...
Dates: June 26, 1972
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Test pilot, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California

Clippings, dealing with various aircraft, including Fairchild's A-10, A-7, Northrop A-9A, A-10A, A-7D, and flyoffs (the last 2/3rds of the binder consists of clippings), circa 1972 - 1977

 File — Box: 46, Folder: 2, Item: 20
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2, File 1, Item 20
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: This sub-group consists of photographs, certificates, and clippings from Bridges' time as a test pilot. The last 2/3rds of the binder contains clippings dealing with various aircraft, including Fairchild's A-10, A-7, Northrop A-9A, A-10A, A-7D, and fly-offs, circa 1972-1977.After returning from Vietnam, Bridges was assigned as an instructor pilot with the 3575th Pilot Training Squadron at Vance AFB, Oklahoma, from January 1969 to July 1970. He then attended Test Pilot School at...
Dates: circa 1972 - 1977
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Test pilot, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California

Congressional Record - Senate (copies) dealing with funding for development of Air Force fighter planes, September 21, 1973; June 3, 1973; June 5, 1973; September 20, 1973 (also included are articles about procurement issues), 1973

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 2, Item: 21
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2, File 2, Item 21
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: This sub-group consists of photographs, certificates, and clippings from Bridges' time as a test pilot. The last 2/3rds of the binder contains clippings dealing with various aircraft, including Fairchild's A-10, A-7, Northrop A-9A, A-10A, A-7D, and fly-offs, circa 1972-1977.After returning from Vietnam, Bridges was assigned as an instructor pilot with the 3575th Pilot Training Squadron at Vance AFB, Oklahoma, from January 1969 to July 1970. He then attended Test Pilot School at...
Dates: 1973
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Test pilot, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California

Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, 1969 - 1993

 File — Box: 46, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1
Scope and Contents See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: 1969 - 1993
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Autographed photograph, Purdue alumni astronauts with President Steven Beering, 1985

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 1
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 1
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: 1985
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Program and invitation, Eastern Space and Missile Center Change of Command Ceremony, (Colonel John R. Wormington vice Colonel Roy D. Bridges, Jr., January 27, 1990

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 2
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 2
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: January 27, 1990
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Thank-you note from "Jack and Peggie" , January 29, 1990

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 3
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 3
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: January 29, 1990
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Program, Thanksgiving dinner, Oceanside Inn, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, 1989

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 4
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 4
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: 1989
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

"Jail Break" Party invitation and note by Bridges explaining the occasion, October 1989

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 5
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 5
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: October 1989
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Autographed photographs of STS-33 crew, September 1989

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 6
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 6
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: September 1989
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Invitations, STS-33 pre-launch coffee and launch, November 1989

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 7
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 7
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: November 1989
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Patches, STS-33, 1989

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 8
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 8
Scope and Contents Includes tThree cloth and two adhesive mission patches.
Dates: 1989
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Gary, A. Astronaut 'comes home' to speak to former church. The Jackson Herald, p.8., and thank-you note from Virginia Cook, July 5, 1991

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 9
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 9
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: July 5, 1991
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Memorandum and accompanying information for pinning ceremony for Colonel (Brigadier General select) Roy D. Bridges, Jr., June 28, 1990

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 10
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 10
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: June 28, 1990
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Correspondence, photograph and information from Trudy Johnson in regards to a lithograph; "Mounting Up With Wings As Eagles," she painted for Bridges, March 1990, and a clipping in regards to another painting; "A Blessing of Precision Guidance," February 1991, 1990 - 1991

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 11
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 11
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: 1990 - 1991
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Photographs and itinerary from Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr.'s visit to Eastern Space and Missile Center, May 1989

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 12
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 12
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: May 1989
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Photograph from Christmas party, Colonel Bridges, Colonel Schultz, Mr. Ullian and Mrs. Restivo, 1989

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 13
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 13
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: 1989
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Halvorson, T. Ex-Shuttle pilot installed into aviation hall of fame. Florida Today, p. 2B. (Bridges the third NASA astronaut to be installed as a General Jimmy Doolittle Fellow), 1987

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 14
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 14
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: 1987
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Brochure (Bridges pictured), correspondence and information from University of New Hampshire, Whittemore School of Business and Economics (Advanced Management Program), 1988 - 1989

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 15
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 15
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: 1988 - 1989
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Photographs from Space Congress Opening, Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 1989

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 16
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 16
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: April 1989
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Slides and negatives, Eastern Space and Missile Center, 1989 - 1990

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 17
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 17
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: 1989 - 1990
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Photographs and patch, Brevard Community College visit, 1989

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 18
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 18
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: 1989
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Program and remarks, Civilian-Military Council, Brevard County, Commander's Meeting, January 20, 1990

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 19
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 19
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: January 20, 1990
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Correspondence, Admiral Orhan Karabulut, Turkish Naval Forces, January 1990

 Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 20
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 20
Scope and Contents From the File: See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates: January 1990
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / Air Force / Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida / Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida