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Title: General checks speed sled rockets
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: 1956
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 was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated June 18, 1956 reads, "Brig. Gen J. S. Holtoner, commander of Edwards Air Force Base Flight Test Center, makes final inspection of Convair's rain erosion test rocket sled prior to record setting race on track in Mojave Desert. Robert King [sic], center, is Air Force supervisor. Thermodynamics engineer Robert King [sic] stands at right."; See images #00143195 through #00143197 for all photos in this series.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00143195
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d052_f4_i23
CARL0005793419
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/71848
Subject: Air Force Flight Test Center (U.S.)
United States.--Air Force--Officers
General Dynamics Corporation.--Convair Division
Armed Forces--Officers
Engineers--United States
Men--California--Edwards Air Force Base
Rockets (Aeronautics)--California--Edwards Air Force Base
Rocket sleds--California--Edwards Air Force Base
Air bases--United States
Edwards Air Force Base (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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