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E-1239

NASA / AFRC · 1954-04-16 · photograph (digital archive)

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About this work

A group picture of Douglas Airplanes, taken for a photographic promotion in 1954, at what is now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The photo includes the X-3 (in front--Air Force serial number 49-2892) then clockwise D-558-I, XF4D-1 (a Navy jet fighter prototype not flown by the NACA), and the first D-558-II (NACA tail number 143, Navy serial number 37973), which was flown only once by the NACA.

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Subjects

X-3 Stiletto Douglas Aircraft Company NACA Joe Walker inertial coupling Bill Bridgeman High-Speed Flight Station Westinghouse J34 turbojet tires Dryden Fleet Aircraft

Credit lineE-1239. NASA/AFRC, 1954-04-16. Public domain. ID: E-1239.

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