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D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight
D-558-2 Skyrocket Tail
D-558-2 Skyrocket Pilot
D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight
D-558-2 Skyrocket Structural Heating Survey Pickips
D-558-2 Skyrocket, Ship Number 2, with Speed Brake Partially Open
Third D-558-2 Skyrocket on Rocket Servicing Trailer
D-558-2 Skyrocket #1 with Left Landing Gear Collapsed
D-558-2 Skyrocket, First to Reach Mach 2
D-558-2 Skyrocket with Tow Bar
D-558-2 Skyrocket Takeoff with JATO Assist
D-558-2 Skyrocket on the Ground After a Mach One Pass for a Media Demonstration
D-558-2 Skyrocket with Yaw and Pitch Sensing Vanes on its Instrumentation Boom
D-558-2 Skyrocket #1 with Left Landing Gear Collapsed
D-558-2 Skyrocket with Pilot and Automobile
First D-558-2 Skyrocket on Thrust Measurement Gauges
D-558-2 Skyrocket Main Landing Gear and Wheels
"Fertile Myrtle" Mothership Prepares to Airdrop a D-558-2 Skyrocket
D-558-2 Skyrocket Main Landing Gear and Wheels
D-558-1 Skystreak Pilot
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D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight
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
BI229481
Boeing ID
82-2-2
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License type
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