"US Air Force officer" . . . "1957Z"^^ . "1985Z"^^ . . . "Jerauld R. Gentry"@en . . "Jerauld Richard \"Jerry\" Gentry (May 16, 1935 \u2013 March 3, 2003) was a United States Air Force (USAF) test pilot and Vietnam combat veteran. As chief USAF pilot of the Lifting Body Research Program, he helped validate the concept of flying a wingless vehicle back to Earth from space and landing it like an aircraft\u2014an approach used by the Space Shuttle and to a greater degree by vehicles such as the Lockheed Martin X-33 and NASA X-38."@en . . "1935-05-16Z"^^ . . "2003-03-03Z"^^ . "Gentry, Jerauld R."@en . . . . . . . . "Jerry"@en . . "1935Z"^^ . . . . . "388th TFW" . . "2003Z"^^ .