What a place that would have been in its heyday. Hanging around with some pretty heady test pilots like Chuck Yeager, Jack Ridley, Bob Hoover and Bud Anderson. That would have been the limit.
It just doesn't seem possible, looking back from today, that men and women could have accomplished so much. They were and still are giants, and my heroes!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hoover