Flight test archive, 1933-[ongoing].

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Flight test archive, 1933-[ongoing].

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Documentation: flight test reports, pilot reports, technical reports and official correspondence on aircraft and aircraft systems; annual historical reports on Flight Test Center and Edwards Air Force Base; documentary data on the history of flight testing, biographical information, and information on Edwards AFB and environs. Also the Lt. Gen. Laurence Carbee Craigie papers; the Maj. Gen. Osmond J. Ritland papers; and the Col. John P. Stapp, M.D., Ph. D., Sc. D. papers. Photographs (ca. 30,000 items): U.S. military aircraft, people, facilities and buildings, and Rogers Dry Lake area. Videotapes (ca. 2,000 casettes): aircraft and aviation-related subjects. And filmstrips (ca. 4,000 films, 3.5 million ft.): aircraft, mostly related to aircraft flight testing, and aviation-related subjects.

280 linear ft.

United States Air Force, Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Flight Test Center, Historical Archive

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