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On this date ...
July 10, 1950: The
test operations
branch at Edwards
Air Force Base,
Calif., completed
the fighter
evaluation program
on the McDonnell
F-88 Voodoo (top),
the Lockheed XF-
90 9 (left) and the
North American YF- July 12, 1966: The Northrop M2-F2 heavyweight lifting body made July 16, 1965: The North American Rockwell OV-
93 (right) aircraft. its first flight at NASA’s Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research 10 Bronco, an American twin-turboprop light attack
None were selected Facility at Edwards, Calif., with test pilot Milt Thompson. Thompson and observation aircraft, made its first flight. The
for production. was dropped from a B-52’s wing pylon mount at an altitude of OV-10 served with the U.S. Air Force, the U.S.
45,000 feet on that maiden glide flight. Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy, as well as in the
service of a number of other countries. The OV-
10 saw action in Vietnam, and a total of 81 OV-10
Broncos were ultimately lost to all causes during
the course of the war.
July 16, 1969: Apollo
11, the first manned
mission to the Moon,
blasted off from Cape
Kennedy, Fla. On
board were astronauts
Neil A. Armstrong,
Michael Collins and
Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.
Armstrong and Aldrin
July 12, 1988: The Scaled Composites Triumph made its first flight at the would later land on
Mojave Airport. The Triumph was a U.S. twin-engine, business jet prototype the Moon.
designed and built by Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites for Beechcraft, known
July 10, 1962: Telstar 1 was launched. It was officially as the Model 143. Originally, three versions of the all-composite
the first satellite to successfully relay through aircraft were envisioned, one powered by piston engines, one by turboprops
space television pictures, telephone calls, and one by turbofans. The only one built was the turbofan version with
fax images and also provided the first live engines mounted on top of the wings, which was first aircraft to be powered by
transatlantic television feed. The photograph the Williams International FJ44 engine. The flight test program was completed
shows a model of a Telstar satellite. and confirmed the targeted performance.

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