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  2. Armstrong Flight Research Center - Wikipedia

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    It currently resides on the northwestern edge of the lake bed, just south of North Gate. Visitors must obtain access to both Edwards AFB and NASA AFRC. The Rogers Dry Lake bed offers a unique landscape well suited for flight research: dry conditions, few rainy days per year, and large, flat, open spaces in which emergency landings can be performed.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Air Force Flight Test Museum - Wikipedia

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    [8] [9] [10] Further efforts led to the opening of a Century Circle outside the west gate in August 2007 made up of six Century Series airplanes and the top of the former Edwards Air Force Base control tower. [11] [12] The museum's longtime chief historian, Dr. Jim Young, retired in 2011. [13]

  5. List of B-52 Units of the United States Air Force - Wikipedia

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    It now is on static display at the west gate of Edwards AFB, California. One other B-52H (61-0025) was flown for many years by the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards, and was transferred to NASA on 30 July 2001 as a replacement for the RB-52B.

  6. List of displayed McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs - Wikipedia

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    63-7407 – Air Force Flight Test Museum, Edwards Air Force Base, Edwards, California. First F-4C Accepted for testing by the US Air Force. [44] F-4C #64-0813 on display at Eglin AFB. 63-7408 – Tyndall Air Force Base, Panama City, Florida. [citation needed] 63-7415 – Texas Air Museum - Stinson Chapter, Stinson Municipal Airport, San Antonio ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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.

  9. Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake - Wikipedia

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    Jointly controlled by NAWS China Lake, Edwards Air Force Base and Fort Irwin, this airspace is known as the R-2508 Special Use Airspace Complex. A 7.1 magnitude earthquake on July 5, 2019, whose epicenter was within the boundaries of NAWS China Lake, resulted in the facility being temporarily evaluated as "not mission capable" due to damage. [5]