Personal: Male.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Test Pilot (Bell). Inactive

Flights on the X-1 # 3.

9 November 1951 - XS-1 No. 3 destroyed in ground explosion.. 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.