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Aug. 22, 1984: Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, former Mercury astronaut, arrived at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., to fly B-1A No. 2.
Aug. 25, 1993: A new world altitude record for Class C-1Q, Group III Heavy Airplanes was established in a C-17. Capt. Scott Grunwald and Richard M. Cooper flew the aircraft with a payload of 11,000 pounds to an altitude of 42,226 feet.
Aug. 27, 1990:
The YF-23A Gray Ghost made its
first flight, flown by Northrop chief test pilot Alfred “Paul” Metz. The aircraft, featuring two sharply canted horizontal tail surfaces that served as ruddervators, was powered by
two YF119-PW-100 engines.
Aug. 28, 1944: Personnel from the Seventh Air Force arrived at Muroc Army Air Field to set up a six-week training program for replacement B-25 aircrews on their way to the Pacific Theater. The Pacific Theater Training Program was transferred from Oahu to Muroc AAF in order to reduce seaborne supply traffic, and became the Fourth Air Force’s only B-25 “finishing school.” As a training aid, a 650-foot wooden replica of a Japanese Atago-class heavy cruiser (soon dubbed the Muroc Maru) was constructed on the south shore of the lakebed as a target for skip-bombing practice.
Aug. 22, 1951: The X-1D was lost in a fuel explosion during preparations for its first powered flight. The aircraft was destroyed upon impact after it was jettisoned from its EB-50A mothership. The X-1D had previously made a nine-minute unpowered glide flight on July 24, 1951, when it was air-dropped from an EB-50A mothership to make an unpowered glide to the Rogers Dry Lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The X-1D was the first of the “second generation” X-1 rocket research planes to be completed; it was intended for heat transfer research.
Aug. 26, 1975: The YC-15 arrived at Edwards AFB from Long Beach, Calif., on its first flight. It was the McDonnell Douglas entry into the Air Force’s Advanced Medium STOL transport program to develop an aircraft capable of carrying troops and equipment into short, unimproved runways. It was in competition with the Boeing YC-14. Today, this aircraft is in the Air Force Flight Test Museum inventory.
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