The Vietnam War was on, Ted had a low draft number, so rather than join the Army, he volunteered for the Air Force. He was working on his Master's Degree in Physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Ted joined the Air Force after his father died in 1971.
Except for Ted the couple also had another son, John Harduvel, an MIT graduate is an aerospace engineer who worked for McDonnell Douglas, and a sister, Maria, an ultrasound tech living in Chicago. His mother was Luxembourg and English named Margaret M Cooper. He enlisted in the Army to get his citizenship and fought in France during WW1. He was the son of Theodosius Theodore Harduvel who emigrated in the early 1900s from Leonidion and Poulithra in Arcadia district, Peloponnese. Ted Harduvel was born on 28 October 1947. He told his wife, Janet, that if he ever crashed, it would be the failure of the airplane. (Janet Sciales, commentary by Myron Papadakis) Ted Harduvel knew that term and didn’t like the F-16. Therein, lay both its strength and its weakness, for, like many prototypes, the F-16 had its flaws. Sleek, light, and deadly, its controls were directed through a system of wires, no cables or pulleys to break. The plane was the first of its kind, a supersonic, single-engine, all-electric fighter jet. By 1982, at age 35, he had racked up 11 years as a fighter pilot and was one of the more experienced at flying the new F-16 Fighting Falcon. His call sign was "Gamble" not because he took chances, but because he always calculated the odds.
He was a USAF FIGHTER WEAPONS SCOOL-HONORED GRADUATE known in Navy lingo as TOP GUN. Tall, broad-shouldered with a rakishly handsome countenance and a sculpted jaw, Ted resembled a movie star. Ted Harduvel was a fighter pilot and he looked the part.
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