They are the small cadre of flight test pilots who graduate from the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (TPS) at Edwards Air Force Base in California ... Their class photo will share a wall with ...

at the Edwards Air Force Base in California to develop a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) nozzle extension for applications in liquid rocket engines. This advanced, lightweight material improves ...

Sierra Space completed a test campaign on Vortex 35,000 ... The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Rocket Propulsion Division at Edwards Air Force Base, California, is overseeing the project ...

The shuttle was what a rocket could never be ... Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983. Tony Hertz Telegram-Tribune file After test glide and landings upon release from ...

An organization dedicated to promoting tourism in Lancaster has pledged a $100,000 donation to support the construction of a new museum and STEM center to showcase the history of American aviation ...

The existing Flight Test Museum facility occupies 12,000 square feet within the secured perimeter of Edwards Air Force Base and houses icons of aviation history ranging from the X-1 rocket plane ...

An assignment to the secretive test centers at Edwards Air Force Base can be the capstone of a ... (Edwards History Office file photo) But troops arriving at Edwards today are welcomed with ...

Sustaining us is made possible by fire, heart, pictures and viewers like ... legacy that is 80 years of flight test research at Edwards Air Force Base and. Specifically the X-1.

The end of World War II was less than a decade in the rearview mirror of the world's collective consciousness, and the rocket age ... Muroc Dry Lake (now Edwards Air Force Base) in March 1947.

“Flight testing is a critical step in the test campaign managed ... Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, will coordinate maintenance and sustainment of the B-21 and Edwards AFB, California, will lead testing ...