This article first appeared in the December 1973 Flight Test News.
The society now has an historian, at last–Ted Bear, the official historian of the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, California. Ted has volunteered to keep our little archives in shape and to write a running account of the society’s activities, which will of course start of our founding back in 1968.
He has been a civil servant for 17 years, working as historian, press officer, and an interpreter of French and Arabic. Ted has, in fact, spent 20 of his 47 years abroad–starting as a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, spending eight years in North Africa where he studied mountain and desert tribes (at one time owning his own tent and three camels), and, after France and London, serving two years as a war historian in Southeast Asia.
He and his wife, Adele, whom he met and married in Morocco and who is Edwards’ Special Services Artists, live at 5,000 feet in the San Gabriel mountains south of the base.
This article first appeared in the December 1973 Flight Test News.
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