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Edwards Air Force Base
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Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. The base houses the Air Force Flight Test Center, which researches and develops aerospace weapons and rocket-propulsion systems, and the National Aeronautical and Space Administration's Flight Research Center. The base is also the proving ground for military aircraft. It has been the landing point for a number of space shuttle missions; on Sept. 5, 1983, the Challenger made the first nighttime landing of a spacecraft there.
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com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Lockheed designer Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, head of the Skunk Works team, congratulates test pilot Tony Levier after the first flight of the XP-80A on June 10, 1944, at Muroc Dry Lake.
'SKUNK WORKS' A SECRET SUCCESS CLANDESTINE: 'IF IT WORKS, DON'T FIX ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Muroc Dry Lake, east of Rosamond, had been used by the Army Air Corps since the 1930s for gunnery practice.
FARMS, SPACE, BEYOND ANTELOPE VALLEY SETS SIGHTS ON THE FUTURE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Little more than a year before Kingsley arrived, the first XP-59A arrived in secrecy at the north end of the Muroc dry lake bed, near what is now NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.
BIRTH OF THE NATION'S FIRST JET FIGHTER CONSTRUCTION DURING WORLD WAR ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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