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Photograph article dated July 6, 1960 partially reads, "Veteran pilot of carrier aircraft that launch rocket planes, Maj. Fitzhugh Fulton of Edwards Air Force Test Center, is satisfied to be a part of the program that annually sends fliers reaching farther into space at faster speeds. He has dropped scores of experimental rocket craft from bomb bays of B-50 and B-58 Air Force planes since becoming a part of the program in 1950. His first launch was with the X-1."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Air Force Flight Test Center (U.S.) Air pilots, Military--California--Edwards Air Force Base Test pilots--California--Edwards Air Force Base Bombers--California--Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base (Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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