March 21, 1958
1958: Holloman high-speed test track establishes new speed record of 2,704 MPH for rocket-propelled monorail sleds.
1958: Holloman high-speed test track establishes new speed record of 2,704 MPH for rocket-propelled monorail sleds.
1932: First flight of The Boeing XP-26: 1st Army all-metal monoplane fighter and the last pursuit plane with an open cockpit and fixed landing gear.
1969: SECDEF Melvin Laird announced that the FB-111 program would be reduced, due to its lack of intercontinental range. He thus limited the USAF to four squadrons with 60 aircraft and a few replacements. Laird
1926: Dr. Robert H. Goddard test flies the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn, MA.
1983: Thru 28 March SAC successfully demonstrates sea interdiction capability with three AGM-84 Harpoon missile launches from a B-52.
2003: AFFTC accelerates dual-door separation testing of the F-117A; results are sent immediately to the OAR and are employed in onset of Op Iraqi Freedom.
2007: The first MQ-9 Reaper, a newer, larger and stronger version of the MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, arrives at Creech AFB, NV.
1908: Lt Thomas E. Selfridge’s Red Wing, the first Aerial Experiment Association airplane, makes its first flight at Lake Keuka, Hammondsport, N. Y., with Frederick W. “Casey” Baldwin at the controls.
1956: Hollywood films “Toward the Unknown” at Edwards AFB. (Lloyd Nolan and William Holden)