Kenneth Oscar Chilstrom was a United States Air Force officer, combat veteran, test pilot, and author. He was the first USAF pilot to fly the XP-86 Sabre, chief of fighter test at Wright Field, commandant of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, and program manager for the XF-108 Rapier. Chilstrom was a pilot in the first jet air race and delivered the first air mail by jet. He flew over eighty combat missions in the Italian Campaign of World War II and tested over twenty foreign models of German and Japanese fighters and bombers to evaluate their strengths and weaknesses.
Chilstrom in 1961
Captured Fw 190
XP-86 in flight over the Mojave Desert in 1947
WWII aviators Ken Chilstrom and Tom Horton at an OBPA luncheon in 2014
Zumbrota is a city in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States, along the North Fork of the Zumbro River. The population was 3,252 at the 2010 census. It promotes itself as "the only Zumbrota in the world."
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
First Congregational, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Crossings at Carnegie, a performance space and art gallery in a 1907 library building
The bike trail in Zumbrota