Flight Research Pilots

Mark P. “Forger” Stucky was an aerospace research test pilot at NASA’s Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, from February 1996 until the middle of September 1999. He was assigned as a pilot on various flight test models of the F-18 and F-16 aircraft as well as the King Air. He also was the project pilot in the Eclipse project, which involved towing a QF-106 behind a C-141 to test a method of launching spacecraft. When he joined Dryden, Stucky had logged over 4,000 flight hours in over forty different models of aircraft varying from the U-2 spyplane to the Goodyear Blimp…Read bio