Victor Valley's very own Edwards Air Force Base is ahead of the Patriot Day celebration with its Military Retiree Appreciation Day from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 7 at Club Muroc, Edwards ...

Edwards Air Force Base is a U.S. military facility where cutting-edge aerospace technologies are tested. ... He established the Muroc Bombing and Gunnery Range in 1933, ...

Edwards Air Force Base was established in 1942 at what was then known as the Muroc Dry Lake and has since steadily grown to more than 300,000 acres in size, or 470 square miles, Paoli said.

When it appeared at the flight test facility at California’s Muroc Air Force Base in 1948, the Northrop X-4 Bantam was the 98-pound weakling of research airplanes.

No one knows for sure, but the last land speed pass at Rogers Dry Lake—otherwise known as Edwards Air Force Base or Muroc—occurred during the latter part of 1941, or just after Pearl Harbor ...

Once known as Muroc field, the base streets pay homage to test pilots who flew over the base, like Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager, who first broke the sound barrier in the desert ...

It was at Edwards (or more properly, Muroc Army Airfield, ... 4 Replies to “Looking for My Father on a Rare Tour of Edwards Air Force Base” james h cox says: July 4, 2019 at 9:43 pm.

NORTH EDWARDS – While other Antelope Valley school districts are trying to figure out how to pay for new schools, Muroc Joint Unified School District officials are looking at how to lessen th… ...

Yeager stands beside Glamorous Glennis, the X-1 supersonic plane in which he became the first pilot to break the sound barrier at the Muroc Dry Lake Bed, later named Edwards Air Force Base, in 1947.