File:X-1A DVIDS846442.jpg
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English: The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1A (48-1384) returning from an Air Force test flight over Edwards Air Force Base, California in late 1953. A North American F-86A Sabre as chase plane will follow the X-1A to touchdown. The Rogers Dry Lake is the whitish area under the planes with the airfield at the edge of the dry lake.
Bell test pilot Jean "Skip" Ziegler made six flights between 14 February and 25 April 1953. Air Force test pilots Maj. Charles "Chuck" Yeager and Maj. Arthur "Kit" Murray made 18 test flights between 21 November 1953 and 26 August 1954. NACA test pilot Joseph Walker made one successful flight on 20 July 1955. During a second flight attempt, on 8 August 1955, an explosion damaged the aircraft shortly before launch. Walker, unhurt, climbed up into the JTB-29A mothership, and the X-1A was jettisoned over the Edwards AFB bombing range. |
| Date | Taken in 1953 |
| Source | https://www.dvidshub.net/image/846442; see also https://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/X-1A/HTML/E-2490.html and https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/X-1A/E-2490.html |
| Author | NASA |
| Location | Edwards Air Force Base, California |
| Posted | 8 February 2013, 11:44 |
| DVIDS ID | 846442 |
| Archive link | archive copy at the Wayback Machine |
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