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Title: Climbing upstairs to sonic corridor
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: 1958
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, 1958 reads "Lifting off apron at Palmdale airport at more than 180 miles per hour, Capt. Mickey Jones begins pulling in his landing gear as Sabre starts long climb up to 20,000 feet en route to Sonic Boom corridor near Mojave." The words "U. S. Air Force" are written on the side of the plane.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00118570
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d022_f18_i15
CARL0005381210
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/52507
Subject: United States.--Air Force
Palmdale Regional Airport
F-100 (Jet fighter plane)
Bombers--California--Palmdale
Jet fighter planes--California--Palmdale
Airplanes, Military--United States
Airports--California--Palmdale
Palmdale (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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