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Title: Testing Navy carrier in Mojave Desert
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph caption dated September 6, 1955 reads "Navy's new carrier training plane, Lockheed T2V-1, gets its 'sea legs' in middle of Mojave Desert as it flies through course of tests on simulated carrier built among sand and cacti near Inyokern Naval Test Station. Two-place jet which has speed of 600 miles per hour, lands at 97 miles per hour, slower than any other jet. It is in quantity production at Burbank's Lockheed Corp."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00119894
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d023_f25_i12
CARL0005383949
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/52716
Subject: Men--Mojave Desert
Airplanes--Mojave Desert
Lockheed aircraft
Runways (Aeronautics)--Mojave Desert
Mojave Desert
Valley Times Collection photographs

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