Edwards Air Force Bases

The bases Edwards is a Air base California of the US Air Force in the Désert of Mojave, or were tested in flight of many prototype S, it is also useful, from time to time, with the landing of the space shuttles of NASA. And so that the shuttles can return to the launching base of Cap Canaveral, they are assembled using a crane on the back of a Boeing 747-100 equipped especially for this purpose.

History

  • Its old name is Muroc dry lake
  • the current name was given in homage to the Test pilot Glenn Edwards which committed suicide in June 1948 with the orders out of a hang-glider Northrop YB-49
  • Chuck Yeager was based in Edwards when it crosses for the first time the Mur of the sound.

Anecdote

Edward Murphy, the author of the Law of Murphy, worked with the tests on this basis.

External bond

  • Historical and lists first flights
  • Official site

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