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MAX STANLEY- TEST PILOT
first flight - YB49
The first YB-49 was rolled out in October 1947. "Spewing a twin trail of black smoke, the sky monster swept into the air before the awed thousands gathered to witness the historic take-off," gushed a company press release. Max Stanley was again at the controls, and again it was a delivery flight to Muroc--now the property of the newly independent United States Air Force. copyright - Air & Space Magazine 1997

The Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.
— attributed to Max Stanley, Northrop test pilot.




OBITUARIES MAX STANLEY, 89; TEST PILOT FOR FIRST FLYING WING

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Max R. Stanley, a Northrop test pilot who flew the experimental Flying Wing 40 years before its modern-day equivalent, the B-2 bomber, was invented, has died. Stanley, 89, an inductee of Lancaster's Aerospace Walk of Honor in 1993, died Saturday at his Brentwood home, said his wife, Judie Scott Stanley. 1/28/99. Los Angeles Daily News copyright 1999

 

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