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By: Dennis Anderson Link: https://www.aerotechnews.com/blog/2023/05/12/flight-test-museum-fund-drive-takes-wing-at-edwards/ EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Test pilot James “J.B.” Brown beckoned the audience gathered on a large, concrete foundation to gaze skyward and look…

By: Patti Orr Link: http://www.desertnews.com/news/article_c95e0a2c-edc4-11ed-91b8-e7c4871e050e.html EDWARDS - On May 5th, several dignitaries, including Kern County 2nd District Supervisor Zack Scrivner, California State Assemblyman Tom Lackey and other military and civilian…

By: Mark La Ciura Link: https://www.theloopnewspaper.com/story/2023/04/15/community/a-day-at-the-edwards-flight-test-museum/10704.html Even as a former employee, it will always be an interesting experience to visit Edwards Air Force Base. I was recently invited for a VIP…

By: Larry Grooms Link: https://www.aerotechnews.com/blog/2023/04/07/support-organizing-to-complete-flight-test-museum/ On March 22, 2023, an occupationally diverse group of Aerospace Valley citizens became the first cohort in a series of National Museum League Training Camps…

By: Claudia Elliott Link: https://www.tehachapinews.com/news/flight-test-museum-foundation-launches-campaign-to-complete-phase-i-of-new-accessible-museum-at/article_5dfaad8e-d1d2-11ed-97da-ebee51b185a0.html Coming soon to a service group near you is likely to be a presentation from the Flight Test Museum Foundation — a nonprofit organization determined…

By: Steven Mayer Link: https://www.bakersfield.com/news/flight-test-museum-expanding-moving-just-outside-west-gate-of-edwards-air-force-base/article_064644f4-cd04-11ed-9c00-6f7e4c4cfdd3.html Just outside the west gate of Edwards Air Force Base, the framework of a supersonic dream is rising up from the desert landscape. The dream…

By: Robert Pearlman Link: http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum41/HTML/001105.html?fbclid=IwAR2LjyGXM1-Yd8aCYGtR37S5r3eXTbvZBcYvuNTp75338fccYgxwNRaEEHc A huge discovery has been made! In an unmarked box in the archives, we rediscovered Neil Armstrong's XMC-2 pressure suit used while he tested the…

LINK: https://www.aerotechnews.com/blog/2022/11/18/aero-museum-moving-forward-steel-spires-rise-to-announce-center-of-aerospace-world/ LANCASTER, Calif.–In welcoming supporters to the 2023 Gathering of Eagles banquet, Foundation Board Chairman Art Thompson announced, “We put up the steel wall structures for the first 60,000-square-foot…

LINK: https://www.aerotechnews.com/blog/2022/11/18/eagles-report-2022-flight-test-museum-panelists-turn-sights-towards-heavens/ LANCASTER, Calif.–Celebrating 75 Years of Breaking Barriers over America’s Aerospace Valley, the Flight Test Historical Foundation’s 2022 Gathering of Eagles probed the possibilities of what awaits humanity over…

LINK: https://www.avpress.com/news/a-celebration-of-inspiration/article_8b172aa0-6499-11ed-af1c-3bc6042bd99a.html LANCASTER — For decades, Hollywood science fiction has served as a source of inspiration for real-world aerospace achievements. Today’s aerospace engineers, pilots and astronauts are as likely to be…