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Cannon
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Joseph Cannon American Pilot Test Pilot. . Personal: Male. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Test Pilot (Bell). Inactive Flights on the X-1 # 3.
Cannon Chronology 9 November 1951 - XS-1 No. 3 destroyed in ground explosion.. Assignment: Prime Crew. Planned captive flight with B-50 for propellant jettison test. XS-1 (No. 3) rocket research airplane and its B-29 "mother" airplane were destroyed on the ground by postflight explosion and fire. Pilot Cannon was injured.
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