Muroc Flight Test Unit (now NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center) calling the aircraft a “lemon.” After just 10 flights, ...

After the war, Yeager became a test pilot at Muroc Army Air Field (now Edwards Air Force Base), becoming the first pilot to break the sound barrier in the rocket-powered Bell X-1 aircraft on ...

Cardenas, took off from Muroc Air Force Base (now known as Edwards Air Force Base) in the high desert north of Los Angeles, ...

Fabulous Lake. Most of the airplane flight testing is now done at Edwards Air Force Base on the Mojave Desert, Calif., a fabulous place where Muroc Dry Lake (so wondrously flat that it curves like ...