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Edwards Air Force Base began life in September 1933 as the Muroc
Bombing and Gunnery Range. By early 1942 the Flight Test Division
at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio began looking for an isolated
location to conduct flight testing of Top Secret aircraft. The
44-square mile Rogers Dry Lake located nearby the training base at
Muroc provided the ideal location. Eventually, all of America's
early jets, both Air Force and Navy, underwent flight testing at
Muroc, which quickly became synonymous with the cutting edge flight
research of the turbojet revolution. By 1946, however, a new type
of research activity designed to explore the most challenging
unknowns of flight began. This was the dawn of the "X-Planes."
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