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Flight Test Files: Viper X
By Stephen Chapis Ask any average aviation enthusiast to name a handful of X-Planes and they are likely to rattle off the X-1, X-15, and perhaps the X-24A/B. Some of the more learned may add […]
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Flight Test Files: The Other First Man
by Stephen Chapis The first generation series of experimental X-1 rocket-propelled aircraft is arguably the most famous set of X-Planes to ever shatter the silence in the skies over California’s Mojave desert; the Bell Aircraft Company […]
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Flight Test Files: The Douglas D-558-I Skystreak
Conceived during 1945, the Douglas D-558-I Skystreak was a ground-breaking, transonic research aircraft designed for the U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics in conjunction with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The Skystreak, unlike most […]
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Flight Test Files: B-47A Stratojet
A little while back, we began a series of articles looking at the air-test work which NASA and its forebear, the N.A.C.A., conducted at their facility in the Mojave Desert, located within the massive military […]
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Flight Test Files: A-5A Vigilante
There has long been a close aerospace research partnership between NASA (and it’s forebear, the N.A.C.A.) and the U.S. military. This association is perhaps best exemplified by their co-located facilities in California’s Mojave Desert centered […]
