The 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron (4477 TES) was a squadron in the United States Air Force under the claimancy of the Tactical Air Command (TAC)...
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was re-designated as the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron and the operation was renamed again to Constant Peg. The squadron developed realistic combat...
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 (redirect from Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 and MiG-27)
try and turn with you, but he would never be able to turn the same corner as you. — Col (ret.) Paco Geisler, 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron One of...
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The MiGs were added to the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron ("Red Eagles"), a USAF aggressor squadron at Tonopah Test Range. The MiG-21 was designed...
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"mobile threat test" program at Kirtland Air Force Base, operated by the USAF's 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron. As of 2015, MiG-15UTIs and MiG-17s are...
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perform technical evaluations of foreign military aircraft (Soviet and Chinese). A similar organization, the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron ("Red Eagles")...
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1970s and used by the USAF's 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron. Four were hurriedly supplied by the USSR to Sri Lanka during the 1971 insurgency and were...
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assigned. This same radio call had been used by the enigmatic 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron, also known as the "Red Hats" or "Red Eagles", that often...
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and later returned all 20 F-7M's to China after evaluation. Requiring China to provide a better fighter (which eventually resulted in the F-7MP and F-7P)...
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Wing, and other aircraft types (including clandestine exercises with Soviet aircraft flown by the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron at Tonopah Test Range...
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program was run by the 4477th Test & Evaluation Squadron, "Red Eagles", and allowed American aircrews the opportunity to fly – and to fly against – the...
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Command 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron. The facility is not perfect from a security standpoint, since it is overlooked by public land and is 32 miles...
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Wing, and other aircraft types (including clandestine exercises with Soviet aircraft flown by the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron at Tonopah Test Range...
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Wing, and other aircraft types (including clandestine exercises with Soviet aircraft flown by the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron at Tonopah Test Range...
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1985 4477th Test and Evaluation Flight (later, 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron): 1 April 1977 – 15 July 1990 USAF Air Demonstration Squadron: 15 February...
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and one U were transferred to the US for test purposes. The ex-Indonesian Air Force MiG-21F-13s were employed in 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron as...
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high-speed ejection from a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 of the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron, out of Groom Lake, Nevada at 1018 hrs., which was initially...
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John B. Nathman (section Awards and decorations)
States Air Force as the senior naval test pilot flying all project aircraft with the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron (4477 TES) at Nellis Air Force Base...
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Herbert J. Carlisle (section Awards and decorations)
Fighter Squadron, Holloman AFB, N.M. January 1986 – April 1988, chief of weapons and tactics and flight commander, 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Nellis...
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Constant Peg – evaluation of clandestinely-acquired Soviet fighter aircraft at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, by 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron. The idea...
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Dissimilar air combat training (category Military education and training in the United States)
purchased Soviet fighters for DACT on occasions. Aggressor squadron 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron Smith 1986. Weaver 2013, pp. 20–21. Wilcox 1990, pp. 103–105...
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57th Wing (category Military units and formations in Nevada)
1985 4477th Test and Evaluation Flight (later, 4477 Test and Evaluation Squadron) Squadron: 1 Apr 1977 – 15 Jul 1990. USAF Air Demonstration Squadron: 15...
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Robert M. Bond (section Early life and career)
the 6513th Test Squadron, Red Hats, at Groom Lake. The Red Hats, like the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron Red Eagles based at Tonopah Test Range, clandestinely...
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Nellis Air Force Base (section Role and operations)
electronic warfare. Nellis' 4477th Tactical Evaluation Flight ("Red Eagles") operated MiG-17s, MiG-21s and MiG-23s at the Tonopah Test Range Airport (late 1960s-c...
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David J. McCloud (section Major awards and decorations)
Tactics Test and Training Mission Project Pilot, Section Chief for Special Projects, Flight Commander and Assistant Operations Officer, 4477th Test and Evaluation...
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507th Air Defense Aggressor Squadron 547th Intelligence Squadron See Also 4477th Tactical Evaluation Flight Replaced the Aggressor flying components of the...
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desert. 23 August Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F, 002, of the USAF 4477th Test & Evaluation Squadron, Groom Lake, Nevada is lost due to pilot induced loss of control...
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