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By Mike Glenn, Pine Mountain Community

I’ve been volunteering for the Flight Test Museum at Edwards Air Force Base since 2009. Our displays are focused on the history of testing and development at this Mojave Desert base since the 1940s.

Displays are rotated often, offering in-depth information about aircraft flown there on the 429 square miles of instrumented range complex and 44 square miles of flat lake bed used for testing. NASA also uses the facility.

For Aerospace buffs, the 1950s and 60s was the Age of…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Above: The F-117 Nighthawk; Left: Mike Glenn with his Edwards restoration team, volunteering since 2009.

The only surviving prototype of the XB-47

The Douglas F3D Skyknight

The Navy’s A3D Skywarrior took two years to restore

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