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    moved Tony and his older sister Nancy to southern California for the warmer climate. While Tony was a teenager, his mother remarried, to Oscar LeVier, who...
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    secrecy during the night of 24–25 February, where Lockheed test pilot Tony LeVier was to do the initial testing. On 28 February 1954, the XF-104 made a...
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    difficulties delayed the first flight until 3 June 1949, with Chief Test Pilot Tony LeVier at the controls. Embodying the experience gained in developing the P-80...
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  • The Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award, named in honor of test pilot Tony LeVier, was established by the Flight Test Safety Committee to pay recognition...
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    the "X" in "XP" was for experimental.) Lockheed's chief test pilot, Tony LeVier, angrily characterized the accident as an unnecessary publicity stunt...
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    of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and 2002 recipient of the Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award. He was honored by NASA with an Exceptional...
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    The Cosmic Wind was designed and built by Lockheed's chief test pilot, Tony LeVier, and a group of Lockheed engineers. A very small single-seat racer, it...
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    making it suitable for small-town airports with limited facilities. Tony LeVier piloted the first flight on June 17, 1946. Lockheed had received 500...
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    David P. Davies, chief test pilot for the UK Civil Aviation Authority Tony LeVier, chief engineering test pilot at Lockheed Corporation Chuck Yeager, first...
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  • Award—Outstanding accomplishment in technical management or engineering Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award—Significant achievement in flight test safety...
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