Air Force Names Group to Attend Space Pilots Course at Edwards Air Force Base, California Part 1

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 281255 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION - RADI0-TV-NEWSFILM BRANCH ROOM 2E791 - EXTENSION 75111 (A) DUPE NEGATIVE TO: Release No. 95-62 FINE GRAIN TO; Footage: 350' 22 April 1962 AIR FORCE NAMES GROUP TO ATTRED SPACE PILOTS COURSE AT EDWARDS AF6 (Official Air Force footage released by Department of Defense) On April 20, 1962, the United States Air Force neued eight test pilots to attend the second space pilots course at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The Aerospace Research Pilot Course 10 an eight-month post-graduate school for test pilots designed to train space-oriented pilots for future serospace projects such as the X-15, DYNA SOAR, and follow-up serospace vehicles. Graduates of the school are not carmarked for specific assignments but will form a pool of highly skilled mm, able to take over as space pilots, engineers, or managers of aerospace projects. Say Film depicts 50' of medium shot and closeups of the seven pilots at home or at work: Capt. Albert H. Crew, Jr., Edwards Air Force Base Capt. Charles C. Book, Jr., Andrews Air Force Base Capt. William T. swinting, Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Major Donald H. Sorlie, Wright Patterson Air Force Base Capt. Robert H. McIntosh, Edvards Air Force Base Major Hyrou 2. Sholle, Deputy Chief of Staff, Los Angeles NOTE TO EDYTORS: 350' 35mm B/W unprocessed film handed out to NBC-TV New York, for servicing both IV and theatrical pool members. Original footage to be forwarded to Array Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 3, New York, within 72 hours. NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY The fine grain master positive, released to the company designated above, is for duplication and distribution to interested TV and Newsreel pool members. It is then to be returned within 72 hours to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. A dupe negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool members so desiring for duplication purposes. Within 24 hours it will be delivered to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York, N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be avail- able to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The dupe negative must not be cut in any manner. E10575

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Filmed News Releases