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The current Flight Test Museum at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The Flight Test Museum Foundation is fund raising to build a new multi-purpose
For questions concerning the web site, facility located outside the base’s secure area that will be fully open to the public.
contact the webmaster at
webmaster@aerotechnews.com. by Stuart Ibberson “They came for the cloudless days, privacy from all those who participated in this incredible body
editor prying eyes and the miraculously hard and flat of work shaped both the modern world and the
expanse of Rogers Dry Lake,” said Art Thompson, American persona.”
Edwards Air Force Base, at the north end of chairman of the foundation board. “Edwards AFB
Where you can get California’s Antelope Valley, is the home of so The Education Center provides educational
Aerotech News and Review many aviation firsts it is hard to keep count. and the Antelope Valley were the hub of the golden programming on the principles of Science,
age of manned flight test popularized by Tom
For information on But for one organization, keeping count is what Wolfe’s The Right Stuff. Technology, Engineering, and Math in flight test
Aerotech distribution, call they are all about. “The area has seen milestones like testing and aerospace research to expand knowledge,
(661) 945-5634 or visit The Air Force Flight Test Museum’s mission is America’s first jet, the breaking of the sound inspire, and motivate future generations using
www.aerotechnews.com/distribution. to preserve, display and educate the public about barrier, rocket plane flights to the edge of space examples of the advancements in aerospace in the
the more than 75 years of flight test at Edwards, and the first glide flights of the space shuttle,” museum’s collection.
NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Air Thompson continued. “The Antelope Valley “Much of this historic work is not known to
Aerotech News and Review is published Force Plant 42 in nearby Palmdale, and the remains a hub of developmental flight test to this the world outside the Antelope Valley and much
every other Friday, serving the Aerospace Valley as whole. day for all the same reasons. The skill and spirit of See MUSEUM, Page 4
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Southern California’s Mojave Desert, has a long view, we take a look at some of the organizations
• Publisher ....................Paul Kinison
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unmanned aerial vehicles to launching people and aviation pioneers.
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