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Title NACA Lewis Softball Team 1952
Full Description The NACA Lewis Research Center Softball Team of 1952.
Date 01/01/1961
NASA Center Headquarters
The NACA Test Force
Title The NACA Test Force
Full Description The fleet of NACA test aircraft are assembled in front of the hangar at the High Speed Flight Station, (later renamed the Dryden Flight Research Center) in Edwards, California. The white aircraft in the foreground is a Douglas Aircraft D-558-2 Skyrocket. To its left and right are North American F-86 Sabre chase aircraft. Directly behind the D-558-2 is the P2B-1 Superfortress, (the Navy version of the Air Force B-29). Also known as the "mothership," the P2B-1 carried aloft the D-558-2 Skyrocket under its fuselage. Once reaching altitude, the D-558-2 was released from the "mothership" after which the pilot ignited its onboard rocket engine.
Date 01/01/1952
NASA Center Dryden Flight Research Center
Complete NACA Muroc Staff of …
Photo Date May 24, 1950
NACA Aircraft on ramp - X-Pl …
Photo Date March 30, 1952
NACA Aircraft Fleet on ramp
Photo Date March 30, 1952
NACA/NASA test pilot Stanley …
Photo Date 1954
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