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D-558-2 Skyrocket Pilot
D-558-2 Skyrocket #1 with Left Landing Gear Collapsed
D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight
D-558-2 Skyrocket with Pilot and Automobile
D-558-2 Skyrocket Takeoff with JATO Assist
D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight
D-558-2 Skyrocket #1 with Left Landing Gear Collapsed
D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight
D-558-2 Skyrocket Tail
D-558-2 Skyrocket Structural Heating Survey Pickips
D-558-2 Skyrocket on the Ground After a Mach One Pass for a Media Demonstration
Pilots with the First D-558-1 Skystreak
Third D-558-2 Skyrocket on Rocket Servicing Trailer
D-558-2 Skyrocket Main Landing Gear and Wheels
First D-558-2 Skyrocket on Thrust Measurement Gauges
D-558-2 Skyrocket with Tow Bar
D-558-2 Skyrocket Main Landing Gear and Wheels
D-558-1 Skystreak with Pilot Gene May
D-558-1 Skystreak Pilot Gene May
D-558-1 Skystreak Pilot
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D-558-2 Skyrocket, First to Reach Mach 2
On June 11, 1951, the Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket, flown by company test pilot Bill Bridgeman, set new unofficial airplane speed and altitude records at Edwards Air Force Base, California, with a speed estimated at more than 1,200 mph and an altitude estimated at 70,000 feet. The Skyrocket was a single-seat, swept-wing research aircraft powered by both a turbojet engine and a rocket motor.
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Unique identifier
BI229555
Boeing ID
k5582-g6-2
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2358px × 2928px 19MB
License type
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1940s
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blue skies
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full body views
ground shots
historic production status
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left front views
looking at camera
male
military
military livery
monoplanes
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one person
photos
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scanned from film negative
standing
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