21st Century Complete Guide to Edwards Air Force Base: Great Moments in Flight Test History, Strange Airplanes, Spy Planes, Space Shuttle, X-1, X-1A, ... Audio and Video Files (Two CD-ROM Set)

This up-to-date and comprehensive CD-ROM provides full coverage of the amazing achievements and fascinating work at Edwards Air Force Base in California - many milestones of modern aviation and spaceflight were made at Edwards!

History coverage includes Moments in Flight Test History; Historical Virtual Tour of Edwards AFB; The Planes that Yeager Flew; Aircraft including X-1; X-1A; X-2; X-3; X-15; X-33; A-20 Havoc; B-2 Spirit; XB-35 Flying Wing; YB-49 Flying Wing; F-15 Eagles; Silver Anniversary of the F-16; F-22; XP-59A Air comet-America's First Jet; XP-80/80A Shooting Star-First to Exceed 500 mph; Spy Planes; Strange Planes-Weird, Wild and Wonderful; Space Shuttle Columbia; Biographies of Pilots including Florence "Pancho" Barnes; Scott Crossfield; Bill Dana; Glen Edwards; Joe Engle; Fitz Fulton; Charles Yeager; Female Test Pilots; Edwards Before the Military; The Dry Lake Beds; Evolution of Flight Test; Major Milestones; USAF Test Pilot School; Sonic Booms; Other Testing; Pushing the Envelope; Breaking Mach 2; Sled Track to Survival; Edwards-Hollywood Collection; Weapons Systems for Tomorrow's Air Force; UAV Robo Force; Air Supremacy in the Jet Age; First Flights; Remembering the First Supersonic Flight; Murphy's Law was Born Here; Muroc Lake Bed Marker; Base History; Moments in Flight Test History. Coverage features About Edwards; Products and Services; Base Guide; Contracting; News releases 1996 through 2003; Careers at Edwards; Flight Safety; F/A-22 Raptor complete coverage; Edwards History; Photo Gallery illustrated with dramatic color and contemporaneous black and white photography of aircraft and pilots; Test Pilot School. Products and Services coverage includes Edwards Climate, Terrain and Visibility; Overview of Capabilities; Combined Test Force; Electronic Warfare; Flight Testing; Logistics; Ranges; Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles; Facilities and Resources Overview; Avionics Integration; Measurement Facilities; Logistics Resources; Aircraft Instrumentation; Modification Center; Ranges including Ridley Mission Control; Edwards Flight Test Range; Designated Spin Areas; Radar Fidelity and Geometric Range; Terrain-Following Radar Course; Instrumented Routes; Mobile Range; Runways and Dry Lakes; Business Guide; Sharing Technology. Edwards Capabilities and Facilities includes Electronic Warfare (Electronic Warfare Directorate; Avionic Test and Integration Complex; Flight Test and Open Air Range); High Performance Computing/Distributed Center (HPC/DC); Measurement Facilities (Tensile Strength Measurement; Air Data Calibration Facility; Ground Vibration/Structures Laboratory; Human Factors Laboratory; Icing/Refueling Laboratory; Instrumented Propulsion Complex; Aircraft Gun Harmonization Facility; Stores Weight and Inertial System Facility Test; Test Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment (TMDE) Lab; Aircraft Horizontal Thrust Measurement Facility); Modeling and Simulation (T & E Modeling and Simulation/TEMS); Open Air Ranges; Mission Support Facilities (Aircraft Corrosion Control; Air Traffic Control; Test Pilot School). Measurement Facilities include Air Data Calibration Facility; Human Factors Laboratory; Instrumentation Propulsion Complex; Parachute Test Complex; Aircraft Gun Harmonizing Facility; Stores Weight Inertial Facility; Aircraft Thrust Measurement Facility; Test Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment. Over 1100 image files and nine video files are included in this set. Over 10,000 pages are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included. Our CD-ROMs are privately-compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading.