of military to a k55 got assigned korea. i lost my love affair with the hun. this really established the love affair with the saber. a marvelous, marvelous fighter aircraft. down on the taiwan straits. top cover during a period of time when nationalists would resupply the islands. i served as air controller with the seventh infantry. and returning to the states i elected to go to return reserve status. and looking for the jobs that ane out there, and there was opportunity to move into flight test with the b-52 aircraft. i became a flight test engineer on the b-52. but it was a flying testbed. basically in the bombay they had trapeze and all kinds of equipment in there. they could lower such things, a we had thegine, quail missile in there, we did separation studies from various equipments they would install on the forward bombay. we did tough studies, we did acoustic studies. truly a great program and very enjoyable. lasted about 30 months. at the completion of the program and i had the opportunity to move to edwards, up to general dynamics and learned about rockets. i saw an advertisement in aviation week. it was challenging. it said they are looking for qualified engineers to det