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Title: Blast opens canopy
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 was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated December 14, 1955 reads, "As high speed is maintained powder charge blasts canopy open."; See images #00144251 through #00144255 for all photos in this series.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 13 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00144253
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d053_f5_i34
CARL0005819107
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/72953
Subject: Air Force Flight Test Center (U.S.)
General Dynamics Corporation.--Convair Division
Jet fighter planes--California--Edwards Air Force Base--Testing
Jet fighter planes--California--Edwards Air Force Base
Convair airplanes
Delta Dagger (Jet fighter plane)
Rocket sleds--California--Edwards Air Force Base
Air bases--United States
Edwards Air Force Base (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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