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On this date ...
Sept. 4, 1984: The B-1B Lancer
is rolled out at the Rockwell
International facility at Air Force
Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif.
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September 3, 2021
Sept. 4, 1957: The Lockheed C-140
Jet Star made its first flight. According
to the Edwards History Office, it was
designed and flown in only eight
months, to test new innovations in
crash safety, noise suppression,
and aerodynamics. The light utility
transport featured two axial-flow jet
engines mounted on the aft. Later
production versions of the aircraft Sept. 8, 1999: The Helios Prototype flew for the
used four lightweight J60P-5 engines first time at the Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight
mounted in pairs. Research Center, Edwards, Calif. The Helios
Prototype was the fourth and final aircraft
developed as part of an evolutionary series
of solar- and fuel-cell-system-powered unmanned
aerial vehicles. AeroVironment, Inc. developed the
vehicles under NASA’s Environmental Research
Aircraft and Sensor Technology program. In this
Sept. 7, 1956: Capt. Iven C. Kincheloe, photograph, the Helios Prototype flying wing is
on his last assigned X-2 flight, flew shown near the Hawaiian islands of Niihau and
the research plane to 126,200 feet, Lehua during its first test flight on solar power.
establishing a new unofficial world
altitude record and becoming the first
human to fly above 100,000 feet.
Sept. 6, 1943: Northrop’s Sept. 7, 1997: The Lockheed Martin F-22
experimental fighter, the XP- Raptor made its first flight, reaching an
56 Black Bullet was trucked altitude of 15,000 feet in less than three
to the Muroc lakebed and minutes. The F-22 Raptor is the result of
made its first flight, flown Lockheed Martin winning the Advanced
by company test pilot John Tactical Fighter competition, which saw
Myers. The XP-56 was a the Lockheed Martin YF-22 compete
near-tailless design with a against the Northrop Grumman YF-23.
pusher engine driving contra- Flight testing for the F-22 continued until
rotating propellers. It was the 2005, and on Dec. 15, 2005, the Air Force
first aircraft to be constructed announced that the Raptor had reached
entirely of magnesium. its initial operational capability.
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