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Test pilot Beryl Arthur Erickson, pilot at the controls on the first test flights of both the B-36 Peacemaker and B-58 Hustler bombers, died 21 December 2006 in Grand Junction, Colorado. He was ninety. He is credited with as many as fifteen first flights of new aircraft models or variants. In 1940, Erickson went to work for Consolidated Aircraft as a test pilot in San Diego, California. He moved to Fort Worth in 1942. By the time he retired and moved to Aspen, Colorado, in 1962, he had logged more than 25,000 flight hours. He continued to fly his own airplane, a Cessna 210P Turbo Centurion, until he was eighty. Mr. Erickson was profiled in the October 1992 issue of Code One.
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