Pilot Tex Johnston

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Tex Johnston

Living place: Kansas

Birthday: 14-8-1914

Population of US 1914: 99,111,000

Global rank: #98407

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Who is Pilot Tex Johnston?
Tex Johnston is known as a famous test pilot and worked for Boeing and Bell Aircraft.
December 1942 he joined Bell Aircraft as a flight test engineer. He has flown P-39 Airacobra, XP-63 and XP-59 Airacomet.
After World War II, he purchased two Airacobras and repaired them, which he later won. Thompson trophy at the national air race in 1946 with a flying record of 600km/h.
He participated in the design and directly tested the Bell X-1 booster rocket on May 22, 1947.
May 1948 he became a Boeing test pilot. He was the first to fly a prototype of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
From 1960 to 1963 he worked as assistant program manager for Boeing's X-20 Dyna-Soar project in Seattle. From 1964 to 1968 Tex Johnston served as director of Boeing's Atlantic test center in Cocoa Beach, Florida, with two Minuteman rocket projects and designed the Lunar Orbiter for the Apollo mission. .
In 1975 he became director and chief pilot of Stanley Aviation Corporation.
In 1993 he was inducted into the national aviation association.
 
 

Young / Before famous

His first flight was in 1925, when a barnstormer landed near his house.
At the age of ten, he was given a technical instruction in a flight experiment. After graduating from high school, he began pursuing his passion for barnstorming.
He briefly returned to study engineering but dropped out in 1939.

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His parents were farmers, they were Alva and Ella Johnston. His wife is Mrs. Delores, with whom they have three children.

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When was Pilot Tex Johnston born?
Tex Johnston was born in 14-8-1914, death year is , at the age of 110.
Where is Pilot Tex Johnston's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Tex Johnston was born in Kansas, . Mr, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Tiger. Tex Johnston's global rank is 98407 and whose rank is 138 in list of famous Pilot. Population of US in 1914 is about 99,111,000 persons.
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Events in 1914 and 14-8

Events in US in the birth year of Tex Johnston

  • Congress sets up Federal Trade Commission, passes Clayton Antitrust Act.
  • U.S. Marines occupy Veracruz, Mexico, intervening in civil war to protect American interests.
  • The world's first red and green traffic lights are installed in Cleveland.

Birthday Tex Johnston (14-8) in history

  • Day 14-8 year 1900: International forces entered Beijing, China, in an effort to suppress the antiforeign uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion.
  • Day 14-8 year 1935: The Social Security Act became law.
  • Day 14-8 year 1945: Japan surrendered to the United States, ending World War II.
  • Day 14-8 year 1947: Pakistan became independent of British rule.
  • Day 14-8 year 1951: Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst died in Beverly Hills, California.
  • Day 14-8 year 1995: Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet at the Citadel, the state military college of South Carolina.
  • Day 14-8 year 1997: Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.
  • Day 14-8 year 2003: The largest blackout in North American history hit the northeast.
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