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Sept. 4, 1957: The Lockheed C-140 Jet Star made its first
flight. According to the Edwards History Office, it was designed Sept. 6, 1943: Northrop’s experimental fighter, the XP-56
and flown in only eight months, to test new innovations in Black Bullet, was trucked to the Muroc lakebed and made Sept. 8, 1988: The B-1B CTF completed the first automatic
crash safety, noise suppression, and aerodynamics. The light its first flight, flown by company test pilot John Myers. The terrain-following flight of a B-1B Spirit bomber with the system
utility transport featured two axial-flow jet engines mounted XP-56 was a near-tailless design with a pusher engine in “hard ride” at 200 feet over mountainous terrain. This was
on the aft. Later production versions of the aircraft used four driving contra-rotating propellers. It was the first aircraft considered the ultimate milestone for the B-1B ATF.
lightweight J60P-5 engines mounted in pairs. to be constructed entirely of magnesium.

Sept. 6, 1978: The first production F-16 multirole
Sept. 5, 1984: Space Shuttle Discovery ended its inaugural fighter aircraft arrived at Edwards Air Force Base, Sept. 11, 2001: Nearly 3,000 people were killed as 19 al Qaeda hijackers
flight as it landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Calif., from Fort Worth, Texas. seized control of four jetliners, sending two of the planes into New York’s
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