FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Edwards Air Force Base, California ~ 24 FEB 2015

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Road Trip: Edwards Air Force Base, California

Edwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located on the border of Kern County and Los Angeles County, California in the Antelope Valley. Edwards is home to the 412th Test Wing.

The base is strategically situated next to Rogers Dry Lake, a desert salt pan; its hard playa surface provides a natural extension to Edwards' runways. This large landing area, combined with excellent year-round weather, makes the base a perfect site for flight testing. The lake is a National Historic Landmark.

Designated as the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards is home to the United States Air Force Test Pilot School and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. Almost every United States military aircraft since the 1950s has been at least partially tested at Edwards, and it has been the site of many aviation breakthroughs as a result.

The Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for research, development, and test and evaluation of aerospace systems for the United States and its allies.

It also operates the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and supports non-military government agencies. The combat, combat support and training capabilities of most of the Air Force's weapons systems were first proven here, giving the AFFTC a direct link to each of the Air Force's core competencies.

The most recent projects at Edwards are the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, F-22 Raptor, RQ-4 Global Hawk, YAL-1 Airborne Laser and B-52 synthetic fuel program. In addition, the C-17 Globemaster III flight test program is another major project at Edwards AFB. As well, the Department of Defense's massive development on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has seen significant testing of prototypes at Edwards.

Learn More About Edwards Air Force Base HERE!

The Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) Museum is an Air Force Field Museum operating within the guidelines of the USAF Heritage Program. Its mission is to collect, interpret, preserve, and display the material history of the AFFTC, Edwards Air Force Base and its antecedents, and the history of USAF flight testing.

There are currently over 80 aircraft in the museum's collection, with 40 on display (36 at Edwards and four at the AFFTC-managed Blackbird Airpark in Palmdale) and the remainder in storage or restoration. Other artifacts in the collection include aircraft propulsion systems, missiles, hardware, life support equipment, technical drawings, test reports, personal memorabilia, photographs, and wind tunnel models.

Visit The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum HERE!

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Hi Everybody!

((((HUGS))))

[ElkGroveDan]

Here's a photo I took of Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager landing Burt Rutan's Voyager airplane at Edwards after flying it around the world nonstop in 1986.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mooch...our heat wave continues.

It is 41 right now and sprinkling. Sloppy, muddy, filthy dirty everywhere. And my street is all ICE from curb to curb. Tricky driving.

Stay warm and safe. Hope you don’t have to be out in it.

[Soaring Feather]

Evening Ma, still freezing here- very trying for all.

Doing the best we can to stay warm.

Stay safe and HUGS.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Named after one (of many!) fallen pilots who crashed while testing USAF and Navy planes out there.

See if you can post a list of all the test pilots who died so we can learn. The British test pilot story (of many other lives lost due to loose bolts, backwards control wires, no fuel, bad wings, bad designs, turbulence, wrong O-rings, bad engines, bad guns, bad manuaevers, bad planning, no experience at that altitude, aerodynamic “oops - we didn’t know that was going to happen! ... is Tests of Character, by Donald Middleton.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lauren...sorry I’m late. Been learning how to upload some of the payroll and both units were late getting here. Just finished with no upload errors!!

HURRAH!!! Any errors and I have to track them down and fix them before I can finish the upload.

Hope you aren’t too cold. *HUGS*

[ElkGroveDan]

This is a series I took of the Space Shuttle Discovery landing at Edwards after Mission STS-29 in March of 1989 after it had traveled 2 million miles in orbit.

[mylife]

Allo love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKOy9GRqqVE

[luvie]

Howdy, Lauren! (((hugs)))

Good to see you tonight! Great road trip! I think we DO need to go to CA.

For a visit only! :)

[luvie]

...till they all come home.....

[luvie]

Brrrrr! Glad I’m in Texas where it’s a warm 24!

[luvie]

Wow! That’s an amazing shot!!

[luvie]

Howdy, ML! How are you doing? Have a good weekend?

[luvie]

My goodness! YOU are warmer than WE are!

That’s got to be a miracle of some sort! LOL!

[SandRat]

I’m sleeping with Zeus tonight so we both canatqy warm.

[ConorMacNessa]

To all our Valiant Troops - Active Duty, Veterans, Retired - thank you for your service! God Bless you; God Bless you all; God Bless you good!

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Oorah And Godspeed To Our Troops Who Run To The Sound Of The Guns!



American Troops Charging At St. Mihiel, France, 1918



Soldiers of the 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division
Move Out Over The Seawall On "Utah" Beach, 6 June 1944.



Marines Move Out Under Sniper Fire En Route To Seoul
Inchon, Korea, 17 September 1950.



Troops Of The 9th Infantry Division, U.S Army,
Advancing Through The Rice Paddies
Vietnam.



U.S. Marines On The Move In Afghanistan
4 October 2009.

[luvie]

Good idea! Both my kitties slept with me last night and it was all snuggly....till 6 this morning.

Peaches decided it was time to get up...even though we had a delayed opening because of ice.

Little pest! LOL!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Ms Feather...*hugs*...we are 20 degrees too warm at 43, and 30” short on snow. It is the pits, but not as bad as all you folks that are COLD!!!

Stay warm as best you can.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Sending out prayers for Arrowhead1952 as he recovers from his horrible fall.

~ Road Trip: Edwards Air Force Base, California ~

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[luvie]

I wonder how Arrow is doing.....