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  2. Edwards Air Force Base - Wikipedia

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    In December 1949, Muroc was renamed Edwards Air Force Base in honor of Captain Glen Edwards (1918–1948), who was killed a year earlier in the crash of the Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing. [6] During World War II , he flew A-20 Havoc light attack bombers in the North African campaign on 50 hazardous, low-level missions against German tanks, convoys ...

  3. 412th Test Wing - Wikipedia

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    On 1 March 1978, the 6510th Test Wing was established and activated at Edwards Air Force Base, California as part of a re-organization of units at Edwards by Air Force Systems Command. The 6510th assumed the flying mission of the Air Force Flight Test Center, which was established in June 1951. The new wing had a long, established history at ...

  4. Air Force Test Center - Wikipedia

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    Edwards Air Force Base, California: 60 Years of Flight Research at NASA Dryden. Luther, Craig W. X-Planes at Edwards AFB. Edwards Air Force Base, California: Air Force Flight Test Center History Office, 2007. Young, James A. The U.S. Air Force Flight Test Center: Forging Aerospace Power for America. Edwards Air Force Base, California: Air Force ...

  5. Armstrong Flight Research Center - Wikipedia

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    The LLRVs, humorously referred to as "Flying Bedsteads", were used by the FRC, now known as the Armstrong Flight Research Center, at Edwards Air Force Base, California, to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the Apollo Lunar Module in the moon's airless environment.

  6. Benefield Anechoic Facility - Wikipedia

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    The facility is named after Rockwell test pilot and flight commander Tommie Douglas "Doug" Benefield, who was killed in a crash 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Edwards Air Force Base in the desert east of Boron on August 29, 1984 during a USAF B-1 Lancer flight test.

  7. 419th Flight Test Squadron - Wikipedia

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    The second predecessor of the squadron was organized as the 6519th Test Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base in October 1989, [2] taking over the Air Force Flight Test Center's Strategic Systems Division testing of the Boeing B-52G and B-52H Stratofortress. It gained the Rockwell B-1 Lancer program from the 6510th Test Squadron in 1991.

  8. 411th Flight Test Squadron - Wikipedia

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    The 411th Flight Test Squadron is a United States Air Force squadron assigned to the 412th Operations Group of Air Force Materiel Command, stationed at Edwards Air Force Base, California. It conducted the Advanced Tactical Fighter program flyoff competition between the Lockheed YF-22 and Northrop YF-23 prototypes.

  9. 452nd Flight Test Squadron - Wikipedia

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    The 4952nd moved to Edwards Air Force Base, California along with its parent 4950th Test Wing. The 452nd squadron was redesignated the 452nd Test Squadron and reactivated in October 1993 at Edwards Air Force Base, [ 1 ] when it assumed the personnel, mission and ARIA aircraft of the 4952d Test Squadron that was simultaneously inactivated.