WE ASKED AEROSPACE RESEARCHERS, authors, and historians to name the "worst X-planes, with 'worst' to be interpreted any way you like: Useless? Dangerous? Ill-conceived? Downright silly?" Our responders are: -Richard P. Hallion, former Air Force historian and author of numerous books and articles on military and research aviation; .Raymond L Puffer, recently retired from a 33-year career with the Air Force history program, nearly half spent at the Air Force Flight Test Center History Office at Edwards Air Force Base; -Curtis Peebles, author of several books about X-planes and a historian at the History Office of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center; •J.Campbell Martin, also at Dry- den, who initiates symposia, lectures, and publications about X-planes; -Jay Miller, aviation jour- nalist and the author of dozens of books, including TheX-Planes.
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机译:我们请航空航天研究人员,作者和历史学家来命名“最糟糕的X平面,以任何您喜欢的方式来解释'最糟糕的':无用?危险?生病?完全愚蠢?”我们的回应者是:-里查德·P·哈里恩(Richard P. Hallion),前空军历史学家,并撰写了大量有关军事和研究航空的书籍和文章;雷蒙德·普弗(Raymond L Puffer)最近因从事空军历史计划工作而退休,在33年的职业生涯中,将近一半的时间花在爱德华兹空军基地的空军飞行测试中心历史办公室; -库蒂斯·皮布尔斯(Curtis Peebles),他是几本有关X飞机的书籍的作者,也是美国国家航空航天局(NASA)德莱顿飞行研究中心历史办公室的历史学家; •同样在Dryden的J.Campbell Martin,他发起了有关X平面的专题讨论会,讲座和出版物。 -航空新闻工作者杰伊·米勒(Jay Miller),包括TheX-Planes在内的数十本书的作者。
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