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Pilot's view of Edwards Air Force Base, showing the main base area, located beside Rogers Dry Lake. The Happy Bottom Riding Club (1935–1953), was a dude ranch , restaurant, and hotel operated by aviator Florence "Pancho" Barnes near Edwards Air Force Base in the Antelope Valley of California 's Mojave Desert .
Edwards Air Force Base — in the Antelope Valley of the western Mojave Desert, in Southern California. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
In December 1949, Muroc was renamed Edwards Air Force Base in honor of Captain Glen Edwards (1918–1948), who was killed a year earlier in the crash of the Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing. [6] During World War II , he flew A-20 Havoc light attack bombers in the North African campaign on 50 hazardous, low-level missions against German tanks, convoys ...
On 1 March 1978, the 6510th Test Wing was established and activated at Edwards Air Force Base, California as part of a re-organization of units at Edwards by Air Force Systems Command. The 6510th assumed the flying mission of the Air Force Flight Test Center, which was established in June 1951. The new wing had a long, established history at ...
Rogers Dry Lake is located in the Antelope Valley, about 100 miles (160 km) drive north of Los Angeles.It covers an area of about 65 square miles (170 km 2) at the low point of the valley, forming a rough figure eight.
The 412th Flight Test Squadron (412 FLTS) of the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) at Edwards AFB, California operated the C-135 Speckled Trout airframe and managed its test mission. The name Speckled Trout applies to both the organization and the aircraft. The name was chosen in honor of an early program monitor, Faye Trout, who assisted in ...
The 18th Special Operations Test and Evaluation Squadron (18 SOTES) is an active unit of the United States Air Force, based at Hurlburt Field, Florida.The squadron performs field testing for Air Force Special Operations Command, evaluating aircraft, equipment, and tactics in realistic battlespace environments to provide decision-makers with accurate, timely, and complete assessments of mission ...
The squadron is the test force for the Global Vigilance Task Force. [3] Prior to June 2023, the squadron performed flight testing on Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) [4] used by the United States Air Force, NATO, Republic of Korea Air Force, and Japan Air Self-Defense Force.