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Air Force Flight Test Center

Edwards AFB, California
· AIAA Historic Aerospace Site
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The Rogers Dry Lakebed and surrounding airspace, known as the Air Force Flight Test Center and called a “natural airdrome,” has been and continues to be the optimum location for first flights and validation of high-performance and experimental aerospace vehicles. With the research, development, test, evaluation, and other support of Flight Test Center personnel, more major milestones in flight have occurred here than anywhere else in the world.
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