NASA X-3, Dryden history gallery
Summary
E-1239 A group picture of Douglas Airplanes, taken for a photographic promotion in 1954, at what is now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The photo includes the X-3 (in front--Air Force serial number 49-2892) then clockwise D-558-I, XF4D-1 (a Navy jet fighter prototype not flown by the NACA), and the first D-558-II (NACA tail number 143, Navy serial number 37973), which was flown only once by the NACA.April 16, 1954 NASA Photo / NACA/NASA X-3 Project Description
NASA Identifier: 341395main_E-1239
Tags
Date
1950 - 1959
Location
Armstrong Flight Research Center, 34.95855, -117.89067
Source
Defense Visual Information Distribution Service
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