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  • 'Missile with a man in it' honors heroic test pilot

    06/21/2007 2:53:51 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 3 replies · 228+ views
    Antelope Valley Press on ^ | Thursday, June 21, 2007. | ALLISON GATLIN
    PALMDALE - Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Riedenauer took the controls of some of the nation's most advanced aircraft during a military and civilian test pilot career that made him the only test pilot to have flown the U-2, SR-71 and F-117 aircraft. Now, the memory of his exploits is a permanent part of the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42, with his name affixed beneath the cockpit of a Palmdale-built F-104 Starfighter -the Cold War-era "missile with a man in it" jet he once piloted. Riedenauer, who died April 23 at his Palmdale home after a long...