Edwards Air Force Base
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| Edwards Air Force Base is an active Air Force Base, which serves the aeronautic defense industry through several facilities located within the 301,000 acre secured base perimeter. Much of these facilities are located on the western edge of Rogers Dry Lake, a naturally flat 44-square mile landing area for experimental aircraft. Edwards is primarily known for its history of flight testing and experimental aircraft evaluation (it is where Chuck Yaeger broke the sound barrier), and where just about every aircraft in the US military inventory has been tested. Flight testing at Edwards takes place in the skies above the base and surrounding public land, and at ranges all over the Southwest. One of the ranges heavily used by Test Groups associated with Edwards is the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) west of Salt Lake City. Edward employs about 13,000 people at its Air Force, Army, NASA Dryden, and Phillips Lab facilities. Within the perimeter of Edwards are bombing areas littered with wrecked aircraft and live ordnance. |
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50 miles NE of Los Angeles, 7 miles N of Lancaster
(POINT(-117.87334442139 34.954091100522))
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Lancaster CA, 93523
Kern and Los Angeles County |
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Edwards AFB Public Affairs: (805) 277-3510
NASA Dryden Visitors Center: (805) 258-3460 |
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| The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, which moved into a new much larger facility in 2000, is open to the public. Call 661 227-8050. The NASA Dryden facility has a gift shop and gives tours Monday through Friday at 10:15 and 1:15, though you should make reservations (805) 258-3446. There is an open house at the Air Force Base in October, complete with spectacular airshow, and the base also opens up to the public when the Space Shuttle is scheduled to land there. |
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http://www.edwards.af.mil/
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Aerospace R&D, Military, Training / Testing / Bombing Range
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