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Air Force Flight Test Museum Looking Back (Film and slide scans) Edwards AFB, California October 2000 |
A brief photo-report using my slides taken during a visit. Museum storage area. |
General Dynamics NF-111A Aardvark (63-9778 '13') inscribed 'Advanced fighter Technology Integration Flight Dynamics Laboratory' (AFTI) with supercritical mission adaptive wings (MAW). |
Left to right: Martin B-57B Canberra (52-1576 registered N809NA '809'). Vought RF-8G Crusader (145607 registered N114NR) transferred to Castle Air Museum as 'PP-909' by 2009. Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress (52-0008), now on display at the North Gate. |
Left to right: Boeing C-135A Stratolifter (60-0377). Lockheed NC-141A Starlifter (61-2779). |
Left to right: Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird (61-7955), it is now on display in the Museum Air Park. |
Left to right: McDonnell Douglas NF-4C Phantom II (63-7407 'ED'), now on display in the Museum Air Park. McDonnell Douglas RF-4C Phantom II (64-1004 'ED') now displayed on base. McDonnell Douglas YF-4E Phantom II (65-0713 'ED') was the prototype for the F-4E Phantom II. |
Museum Air Park. |
Gloster Meteor TT.20 (WD592). |
Left to right: Republic F-105D Thunderchief (61-146 'HI') on display at the West Gate. McDonnell F-101B Voodoo (58-288) on display at the West Gate. Republic F-84F Thunderstreak (51-9350 'FS-350'). |
Left to right: General Dynamics F-111A Aardvark (63-9766). Lockheed NF-104A Starfighter (56-0790 registered N820NA '820') on display at the West Gate. Rockwell B-1B Lancer (84-0049 'ED') named 'Thunder from the Sky' with the 412th Test Wing. It was used for testing AGM-86A Air-Launched Cruise Missiles (ALCM) and the AGM-131 Short-Range Attack Missile (SRAM II) a nuclear air-to-surface missile. Later to To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. |