Eric Brown said he saw one (flown by Navy Test Pilot Marion Carl) do the shortest and one of the most startling aerobatic display he had ever seen!-he took off, pulled it into an “almost square loop’-and landed directly off it!!
60 Years since Muroc was renamed Edwards AFB, 50 Years since the X-15 first flew, 70 years since the start of WW2, 70 years since the first Jet flew, and 50 years since design work on the ‘Blackbird’ series started
In his book ‘Skunk Works,’ Ben Rich says that the Aurora was Lockheed’s design proposal for the ATB Which lost to the Northrop B-2, but no-one believes him!
SL542 – A low back mk16-acquired by a Marcel Deschamps and Jocelyn Cote from Anthony Gurak -it was evidently stored in a barn after quite a lot of restoration work
I found out the other day that ‘Target for Tonight’ was made by Squadron Leader Henry Illife-couzens-who was C.O. of 19 squadron when they got the first Spitfires
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