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[Bladecutter]

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Check out my Posts: 511 and 512 on this thread
Pics I took at the AFFTC Museum (AFFTC=Air Force Flight Test Center Museum)

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Early and first version:

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X-24A....highest altitude 78 K ft.
Highest speed 1036 mph. I think the dead stick approach was over 200 KTAS

 

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I am (The F-22 CTF) right here...RIGHT NOW

(Orange circle...)

 

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I'm waving!
Can you see me?
(Tee Hee Hee)

 

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Jackie Cochran first woman to break sound barrier flew a Canadian F-86 Sabre Jet reached speed of 1,050.18 kilometers per hour at Rogers Dry Lake 1953

 

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https://www.biography.com/people/jacqueline-cochran-9252061

 

[Bladecutter]

1st licensed Female pilot in USA,, Harriet Quimby.
2nd licensed Female pilot in USA,,
My Grandmother

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Quimbyhttps://youtu.be/ctBUjDsLJHo

 

[Bladecutter]

B-17F straight off Douglas war production line. Douglas, Martin & Lockheed produced B-17's along with Boeing. That's my Old Man flying it. He racked up 1300 hrs in B-17's alone. He also test flew Douglas A-20's & SBD's among others.

 

[Bladecutter]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Quimbyhttps://youtu.be/ctBUjDsLJHo

Her birth date, May 11th.....that's my birthday.

 

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I`m 4 days before

 

[Bladecutter]

I`m 4 days before

Fellow Taurean! High Five! So's poly/Phil....the 10th or 12th.

 

[Photon440]

Sadly, we are not a Salt Lake....

2 Dry Lake beds
1. Rogers dry lake bed
2. Muroc dry Lake bed

We used to have the "SCTA" Southern Calif Timing Association race out here mid 90s
But after 911 and some advanced development programs, the Edward AFB and Dry Lakes are now CLOSED to everyone except Military and Civilians working here.

Okay...technically Rogers is an 'endorheic desert salt pan', but it used to be a lake.

 

[Photon440]

View attachment 496524Jackie Cochran first woman to break sound barrier flew a Canadian F-86 Sabre Jet reached speed of 1,049,835 kilometers at Rogers Dry Lake 1953

1,049,835 kilometers? Per hour? Or per month?

 

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per hour sorry

 

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