Edwards Air Force Base
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Edwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in California. Most of the base sits in Kern County, but its eastern end is in San Bernardino County and a southern arm is in Los Angel
An F-35 Lightning II of the 461st Flight Test Squadron taking off at Edwards Air Force Base
First production P-59A with a P-63 behind
Lockheed XP-80A "Gray Ghost", 1945
Chuck Yeager next to experimental aircraft Bell X-1 #1, Glamorous Glennis, 1947
Area 51
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Area 51 is a highly classified United States Air Force facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range in southern Nevada, 83 miles north-northwest of Las Vegas.
Edwards Air Force Base
…evaluation. ** Note: An AFOTEC Detachment 3 is an unconfirmed geographically separated unit, which may be assigned to a remote facility of Edwards AFB at Groom Lake, Nevada, that may perform similar testing as Detachment 5 on weapons systems not publicly identified. During 1978 and 1979, an AFFTC test pilot and a…
Area 51 viewed from distant Tikaboo Peak
"The Ranch" with U-2 flight line ca. 1957
A 1966 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) diagram of Area 51, found in an untitled, declassified paper, showing the runway overrun for OXCART (Lockheed A-12) and the turnaround areas (CIA / CREST RDP90b00184r000100040001-4)
An A-12 (60-6924) takes off from Groom Lake during one of the first test flights, piloted by Louis Schalk, 26 April 1962.