Talk:Iven Carl Kincheloe, Jr.

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[edit] Photo?

I've read Kinch was considered the finest test pilot of his generation. Is it true he was black? (I confess ignorance...) Is a pic available? Trekphiler 00:04, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Iven or Ivan?

• Iven:
  • ~593 Google hits
  • 2005-02-19 SETP
  • jsc.nasa bios:
    • 2003-01 Fullerton
    • 1996-01 Haise
    • 1994-12 Brandenstein
    • 1993-06 Slayton
  • c1957/1971 Randel, Hugh W. (Lt. Col., USAF (MC))) [1957] (1971). “7 Medical Aspects of Flight”, Neil D. Van Sickle (Major General, USAF (Ret)): Modern airmanship, 4 (in English), New York, New York, USA: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 379, 381. LCCN 71-143545.
    • This book however gets his surname wrong in chapter 10:
      • c1957/1971 Welch, John F. (Captain Strategic Air Command, USAF) [1957] (1971). “10 Flying Higher-Performance Aircraft (9 in 1st (1957) edition)”, Neil D. Van Sickle (Major General USAF (Ret)): Modern airmanship, 4 (in English), New York, New York, USA: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 621. LCCN 71-143545. “One flight was flown by Capt. Iven C. Kinchloe [sic]”
  • ? wpafb.af.mil
  • ? Scaled Composites

• Ivan:
  • ~133 Google hits
  • jsc.nasa bios:
  • 2005-05 Scaled Composites
    • 1997-09 Crippen
  • 1995-07-07 msfc.nasa.gov Mattingly
  • jsc.nasa bios:
    • 1992-03 Truly
    • 1987-03 Engle
    • 1987-01 Mattingly
  • 1979-09-23 NY Times
  • ? au.af.mil

Sites accessed on 2006-03-31. -- Jeandré, 2006-03-31t21:38z, 2006-03-31t22:07z