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X-planes at Edwards: In the center is the Douglas X-3 Stiletto research aircraft. Clockwise from the top: The Bell X-5 variable-sweep wing jet research aircraft; the Navy’s Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket swept-wing aircraft; the Northrop X-4, the Douglas D-558-I Skystreak and the Convair experimental XF-92A Dart. These aircraft were being tested a little before the birth of the Air Force Flight Test Center, June 25, 1951. (Air Force photo)
6/22/2011 -  EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.  -- Sixty years ago, an organization was born out of a need for innovation, knowledge and the capability of proving the systems and flying qualities of aircraft. "Ad Inexplorata" - Toward the Unexplored - was, and still is, the motto of the Air Force Flight Test Center, born June 25, 1951. In 1951, the first commercial, pressurized jet aircraft made its first flight. Chrysler introduced the first passenger car with power steering. The U.S. Census Bureau took delivery of the first commercial computer, the UNIVAC, which cost $1 million and weighed eight tons. To most people at that time a computer was still a person with a slide rule, such as the GS-5 engineering aides (called grunts) assigned to crunch numbers for flight test teams, or the women who worked as "computers" at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Edwards Air Force Base. 1951 also marked several important highlights for flight test at Edwards. In April, a new command, the Air Research and Development Command, was established to oversee Air Force research and development, including activities at Edwards. On May 1 the Experimental Test Pilot School opened its first classes at Edwards, having recently transferred from Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. June 25 marked another significant milestone. Under ARDC General Order 15, the Air Force Flight Test Center was established. Brig. Gen. Al Boyd, who had served as the chief of the Flight Test Division at Wright Field and commander of Edwards, became the first commander of the new AFFTC. General Boyd had worked hard to ensure that the center of Air Force flight test operations moved to the high desert of California. Edwards was already the de facto center for flight research, developmental test and evaluation well before June 1951. The first flight of an American jet aircraft, the Bell XP-59, took place at Edwards in 1942.

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Happy 60th birthday Air Force Flight Test Center
Happy 60th birthday Air Force Flight Test Center

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