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Oct. 21, 1947: The
On this date ...
YB-49, tail number
42-102367, took off
from Northrop Field in
Hawthorne, Calif., with
Northrop Chief Test Pilot
Max R. Stanley at the
controls. The aircraft flew
to Muroc Air Force Base
(now Edwards), Calif., for
flight testing. The YB-49
had been converted from
the second YB-35 pre-
production test aircraft.
Only two Northrop YB-
Oct. 18, 1984: The first production B-1B Lancer 49s were built and they
bomber, serial number 82-0001, made its first flight, were tested by Northrop
Oct. 16, 1953: Heavy gross weight takeoff tests from Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif. Rockwell and the Air Force for
were completed on the Boeing B-47 Stratojet test pilot Mervyn Leroy Evenson (retired Air Force nearly two years.
bomber, extending the capability of this weapon colonel), was the aircraft commander, with co-pilot
system. Lt. Col. Leroy Benjamin Schroeder; Maj. S.A. Henry,
Offensive Systems Officer; Capt. D.E. Hamilton,
Defensive Systems Officer on board. After 3 hours
and 20 minutes, the B-1B landed at Edwards Air
Force Base, Calif., where it would enter a flight
test program.
Oct. 20, 1948: The XF-88
Voodoo made its first flight
at Edwards Air Force Base,
Calif., flown by McDonnell
test pilot Robert M. Edholm.
The high-tailed, twin-engine
aircraft won the Air Force’s Oct. 21, 1959: McDonnell Aircraft Corporation test pilot
long-range Penetration Gerald “Zeke” Huelsbeck was killed while test flying the
Fighter competition but first prototype YF4H-1 Phantom II. During the flight, an
never went into production. engine access door blew loose, flames shot through the
Oct. 16, 1975: The Air Force Rocket Propulsion The basic design later engine compartment, and the F4H crashed. Huelsbeck
Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., resurfaced in the company’s did eject but was too low, and his parachute did not
conducted a successful first firing of the large highly successful F-101 open. The prototype crashed in an open area near Mount
Super Hippo reusable solid propellant rocket test program. Pinos in the Los Padres National Forest, about 70 miles
motor on Leuhman Ridge. southwest of Edwards.

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